Editor’s note: This is the third story in a four-part series diving into the facts behind one fundamentalist Mormon group’s presence, and aftermath of another, the southern Black Hills of South Dakota ...

Carolyn Jessop has written a book about her life in a polygamous cult. Oct. 29, 2007 — -- By the time Carolyn Jessop was 18 years old, she had been coerced into an arranged marriage with a ...

American women are giving up on marriage, argues a recent essay in the Wall Street Journal. As women earn more college degrees than men, achieve career success, and enjoy their independence, men who ...

(RNS) — Many tears have been shed, and much ink spilled, about gender inequalities in Mormon temple sealing rituals. In our religion, a man and a woman can be “sealed” together in a Latter-day Saint ...

Gallup’s annual surveys on the moral acceptability of various issues have produced largely predictable results, with social conservatives remaining in the minority on most measures. The findings were ...

The impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden kicked off on Thursday with the first House Oversight Committee hearing. While the most far-right Republicans in the House, including committee chair ...

In 1694, Puritan minister Cotton Mather mourned that the younger generation of Puritans was uniquely depraved. “Among all the deadly symptoms which threaten us with a speedy ruin,” he wrote, “there is ...

Only a few months after The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints published an illustrated explanation for children about the faith’s historic practice of polygamy, it has changed the images — ...

In July 2025, Uganda's courts swiftly dismissed a petition challenging the legality of polygamy, citing the protection of religious and cultural freedom. For most social scientists and policymakers ...

Polyamory, virtually unknown a scant 20 years ago, has become a new buzzword in the worldwide media and Facebook gossip among friends. Many people confuse polyamory with polygamy, and for good reason.

Sister Wives star Janelle Brown is thriving while living a life away from plural marriage. During the TLC show’s season 20 premiere, which aired Sunday, September 28, Janelle, 56, opened up about her ...