Time magazine’s October 8 “The Mormon Identity” cover story on Mitt Romney (complete with an image of Romney as a stained glass window) brings the spotlight back to the candidate’s religion after a ...

The closer Mitt Romney gets to the Republican nomination, the more he becomes the target of attacks from the left, and his religion has come under scrutiny from some in the press- particularly ...

JB: You also criticize the Mormon tradition of “continuing revelation”—that is, the openness to what we understand to be inspired changes in theology and practice as Mormons collectively seek greater ...

Meacham, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and professor at Vanderbilt University, is the author of the new book And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle The general-election ...

Dear Readers: I usually save reruns of my columna for when I have to smuggle in the latest cousin from the rancho, but the ascendancy of Republic presidential candidate Mitt Romney must be addressed — ...

None of the Obama advisers interviewed made any suggestion that Romney's personal qualities would be connected to his minority Mormon faith, but the step from casting Romney as a bit off to raising ...

c. 2012 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Mitt Romney's Mormon faith makes people uneasy. If used against him in the fall presidential election, the negative stigma or stereotypes could be hard ...

Mitt Romney set the table for questioning Rick Perry in tonight's GOP debate about pastor Robert Jeffress's claim about Mormonism. In his joint press event with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie – in ...

Mitt Romney speaks often about his faith in God and his loyalty to "the same church." But in 2007, when he made a carefully written speech about his religion, he mentioned the word "Mormon" only once.

Romney's faith, like Obama's, is distinctly American yet often misunderstood. And campaigns are rarely an occasion to increase understanding. "Between now and Election Day," writes Peter Beinart, ...

Which campaign do the Mormon comments help the most? The Obama reelection team thinks it's them. Slate's John Dickerson reports that an Obama's campaign presentation Tuesday sought to "to convince us ...

Despite big money, years of organizing and a chattering-class consensus that he’s the "inevitable" nominee, Mitt Romney has failed to connect with two-thirds of Republican voters. Should he be more ...