SALT LAKE CITY – The Mormon church’s renovated history museum, which reopened this week, features a small and surprising display about an uncomfortable part of the faith’s history that for generations ...

This guest column is from Carol Lynn Pearson, author of “The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy,” reacting to the 2025 curriculum for children of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This year, the ...

From Mark Twain's satirical book Roughing It to the HBO series Big Love, polygamy has long been a subject of intense curiosity in popular American culture. Over the years, it's been treated in both ...

Many people confuse polygamy with bigamy, which also means multiple marriages. The difference between the two is that in polygamy, all the involved parties know about one another, which is often not ...

Currently, polygamy is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison. The Utah Senate unanimously passed a bill that effectively decriminalizes polygamy between consenting adults. The bill would ...

Philippa Juliet Meek wrote a series of tweets Saturday about Mormonism and the killings of nine U.S. citizens near La Mora, Mexico. Then she sent one about polygamy. “Can we please just decriminalise ...

On Sunday nights, the premium cable channel HBO has brought forth “Big Love,” a modern-day polygamy story set in a suburb of Salt Lake City. It features Bill Paxton as a man with three wives and some ...

ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah — It’s been two years since Utah’s Legislature appointed a full-time investigator to root out crimes associated with polygamy. But, aside from last year’s high-profile ...

(RNS) — When John Turner’s biography of Brigham Young was published more than a decade ago, I marveled at his skill in dealing with a (very!) complex historical subject fairly. He sifted through a ...

The Roman Catholic Church is defending marriage as a union between one man and one woman amid concerns about polygamy and polyamory, and increased acceptance of same-sex relationships.