Religion News Service columnist Jana Riess on why the 'Mormon' term is still widely used — and why that's OK.
There’s a lesson in this for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also called Mormons. This month marks theIn August 2018, Russell M. Nelson, the then-new president of the church, announced that “Mormon” would no longer be used to refer to the church. He said he was correcting an error — that “Mormon” should never have entered the lexicon because it was a nickname.
What he did not say is that the same words had also been used for decades with love and pride by church members ourselves. We didn’t see “Mormon” as a slur but as an identity of which to be proud.
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