Name: Are congregations the key to stemming America’s rising tide of polarization?
Uploaded: 2024-07-07T00:12:52-04:00
Duration: 5 min
Description: With Election Day just around the corner, political divisions feel especially sharp. Partisan hostility in the United States has risen dramatically in recent years — with 2022 seeing double-digit increases in the percentages of both parties who say that members of the other party are dishonest, immoral, unintelligent and closed-minded, compared with 2016. One solution […]

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Are congregations the key to stemming America’s rising tide of polarization?

With Election Day just around the corner, political divisions feel especially sharp. Partisan hostility in the United States has risen dramatically in recent years — with 2022 seeing double-digit increases in the percentages of both parties who say that members of the other party are dishonest, immoral, unintelligent and closed-minded, compared with 2016. One solution […]

Why these New York congregations won’t be worshipping in a Latter-day Saint meetinghouse for 3 years

This article was first published in the ChurchBeat newsletter. Sign up to receive the newsletter in your inbox each Wednesday night. What do Latter-day Saint congregations do when they uniquely share the same building with a temple, but then the entire space closes down for renovation? Well, they sign a lease to share space with the […]