The Mormon Challenge
The astonishing American war on Mormonism reveals the shallowness of the nineteenth-century commitment to religious freedom. At one point in 2012, both the Democratic leader of the United States Senate and the Republican presidential nominee were Mormons. So were five other senators and eight congressmen. Globally, in 2018 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, often called the LDS Church, was the faith of some 16 million people, including 163,000 in Nigeria, 765,000 in the Philippines, 1.4 million in…
