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...hopeful that discussion of the LDS faith during coverage of the Olympics will encourage people to more fully investigate our doctrines and teachings rather than rely on general stereotypes and popular myth,” writes Robert R. Porter ’00-’02 in an e-mail. “I’ve discovered that knowledge of the LDS church is very individual,” Porter says. “Some students know a great deal about our doctrine and history, while others are familiar with little other than our name...
There is also a well-established LDS institute, where students may take classes on the scriptures or on church history. According to Davidson, the strength of the community lies in the desire of members to congregate within a population as large and diverse as Harvard...
...Mormon tradition includes a considerable number of lifestyle restrictions, but the LDS students at Harvard don’t seem to miss much, though drinking, smoking, caffeine and premarital sex are against the rules. “I’m in University choir, and party-planners for the group always make sure to mention that they’ll serve ‘Mormon-friendly’ drinks” Davidson says...
...interview in his office, "I am an open individual. I think we all ought to be that way--but it is all a process; it doesn't happen in a day." Since becoming president in 1995, the media-savvy Hinckley has been trying to gently nudge the LDS church to be more open. It has not been easy. Even recent proposals to supply condoms to Olympic athletes drew protest. Mormonism is virtually synonymous with Utah, and the conservative religion has shaped the state politically, socially and culturally. But as the church changes, so does the state. Both have seized upon...
...salty to support even fish. Out of this apocalyptic landscape of blood-red rock and sulphur-colored plains, the pioneers hacked a difficult livelihood, struggling with biblical droughts, a plague of grasshoppers and overpowering summer heat. In other Western states such hardships bred a cantankerous individualism. In Utah the LDS church fostered a tightly knit communitarian approach. This lingers today in the "clannishness" that Hinckley criticized in his Pioneer Day speech, and has led to the polarization of society that persists even as much else in the state is changing...