Category: In the News
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How Many LDS Converts Are Children?
By Eric JohnsonMormonism Research Ministry — http://www.mrm.org We reported in the March 2021 Mormonism Researched about how the LDS Church baptismal convert numbers have continued to decline during the past three decades. Whereas the church was growing by more than 4% in the late 1980s, the rate has gone down to less than 1.5% during…
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The Christus Statue to be New LDS Logo
By Sandra Tanner Since 1966, an eleven-foot replica of Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen’s statue, The Christus, has been on display at the LDS Church visitor center in Salt Lake City. At the Saturday evening, April 4, 2020 session of LDS Conference, President Nelson announced that the new church logo would be a drawing of the…
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LDS in Salt Lake County Continues to Slide
By Sandra Tanner According to the Salt Lake Tribune for December 9, 2018, . . . an unrelenting demographic shift has hit a major milestone: fewer than half the people living in Salt Lake County are on the rolls of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The membership numbers come from the church itself . . .…
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LDS Church Growth for 2019
By Sandra Tanner At the April LDS Conference it was reported that church membership now stood at 16,565,036, up from the 2018 count of 16,313,735. There were 94,266 new children of record listed and convert baptism was listed as 248,835. According to the Salt Lake Tribune for April 4, 2020: The latest statistical report, released…
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2018 LDS Church Statistics
The Salt Lake Tribune, April 6, 2019, reported the following 2018 statistics for the LDS Church: According to the article, independent church demographer Matt Martinich concluded this was the “lowest net increase in church membership since 1978.” He also calculated that as many as 140,868 members had resigned in 2018. According to Jana Riess, the…
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In the News (November 2018)
Changing a Web Address While President Nelson, speaking at the October LDS General Conference, declared that nicknames are “a major victory for Satan,” he failed to offer a good alternative. In the religion section of the Salt Lake Tribune for September 27, 2018, David Noyce wrote about the dilemma facing the LDS Church web developers.…
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Three New LDS Apostles: All From Utah
Following the death of three of the fifteen top leaders of the LDS Church, new apostles were appointed in 2015, all of whom were white men from Utah.
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LDS Growth Stats
By Sandra Tanner In 2012 the LDS Church announced that it was lowering the age of its male missionaries from 19 to 18 years old. The age of women missionaries was dropped from 21 to 19 years old. This resulted in a significant increase in the number of missionaries for 2013. Below are the statistics…
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Apostasy in Sweden!
Their 15 Unanswered Questions By Sandra Tanner “Some Mormons Search the Web and Find Doubt” declared the front page story in the New York Times on July 21, 2013. Laurie Goodstein reported that Hans Mattsson, LDS European Area Authority Seventy from 2000–2005, and approximately 600 LDS members, mainly in Sweden, were sharing their doubts through…
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Mormon Expansion into Black Africa
By Sandra Tanner One year ago, at the April 2009 conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Joseph Sitati became the first black African to be appointed to their top leadership. Sitati, an experienced businessman with a degree in mechanical engineering and a diploma in accounting and finance, was installed in the…