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A Tale of Two Names: Journalists on X vs. The Church of Jesus Christ
Journalists embrace X’s new identity but resist the Latter-day Saints’, showing disparate media treatment.
C.D. Cunningham
February 23, 2024
Journalists embrace X’s new identity but resist the Latter-day Saints’, showing disparate media treatment.
It’s taken as an absolute necessity to call individuals and groups by their preferred identifications, even if those preferences shift. Why wouldn’t the same thing apply to an entire church?
With a new year comes a new focus of study for Latter-day Saints—and an opportunity to think more expansively about what “the Church” is.
Two years since President Nelson requested discontinuation of the term “Mormon” to describe the Church, some journalists still opt to use it. Why?
For most in the world, the word “saint” signals something unreachable by mere humans. That’s not how Latter-day Saints see it, though.
The request that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints not be referred to as “Mormon” is similar to the way the Pilgrims navigated their identity.