Veselin Kesich is professor emeritus of the New Testament at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in Crestwood, N.Y.

Aristotle Papanikolaou is Archbishop Demetrios Professor of Orthodox Theology and Culture and Senior Fellow and co-founder of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University in the Bronx, N.Y.

Read a September 2010 Religion News Service story posted by The Huffington Post about the increasing prominence of Mormonism in the national arena.

Read a March 26, 2011, New York Times column by Maureen Down on “the Mormon moment.”

Read a Feb. 8, 2011, column in Religion Dispatches by Joanna Brooks, a religion scholar and writer who grew up in a conservative Mormon home. The LDS church has taken a low-key, media-savvy approach to the often-scathing satirical musical The Book of Mormon, Brooks writes.

The Broadway musical The Book of Mormon won Tony Awards nine at the June 12, 2011, awards ceremony.

The Broadway musical The Book of Mormon earned 14 Tony award nominations, close to a record.

A June 7, 2011, post at the Following Faith blog of The Salt Lake Tribune asks whether “all this national attention [is] good for Mormons?”

See a June 10, 2011, post at the Houston Chronicle‘s Sacred Duty blog that dispels certain myths about Mormonism.