by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Mar 27, 2014 | Terrie Lynn Bittner: Mormonism
April 20th is the 125th anniversary of the birth of Adolf Hitler in 1889. This is not a day to celebrate, but it is a day to contemplate. His birth would set off a course of events that would forever change the world. His life impacted, endangered, and traumatized the...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Mar 26, 2014 | Terrie Lynn Bittner: Mormonism
This weekend (March 29,2014) Mormon women will gather for a historic meeting. For the first time, instead of having adult women and teenage girls meet separately in an annual conference, they will now meet together twice a year–and girls ages eight and older are...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Feb 18, 2014 | Terrie Lynn Bittner: Mormonism
Mormonism is unique for a large religion in that all its leadership roles are filled by unpaid people. Their time is donated to the church, whether they teach the toddlers or serve as the president of the entire church. This is called a lay ministry, and the concept...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Feb 11, 2014 | Terrie Lynn Bittner: Mormonism
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose members are sometimes nicknamed Mormons, have released a new lesson manual for Mormon high school students. The manual covers church history and is used in a program called Seminary, which is taught on school...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Feb 4, 2014 | Terrie Lynn Bittner: Mormonism
90 years ago, on February 3, 1924, Woodrow Wilson died. He was the 28th president of the United States and, after the Republican Party split in 1912, he became a Democrat. Wilson’s presidency had several connections to Mormon history, some of which impacted the way...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Jan 28, 2014 | Terrie Lynn Bittner: Mormonism
Recently, on my newsfeed, I saw a sad story about pop star Justin Bieber’s arrest for drag racing in a yellow Lamborghini. The headlines said he had drugs in his system. I don’t follow him, so I know nothing of his upbringing or past, but as I looked at the rather...
