By Trevor Antley. Bishop Kevin Kloosterman, who served as the ecclesiastical leader of the LDS Church’s Sycamore, Illinois ward, was released from his calling as bishop this week. Kloosterman received attention and mixed reactions from national Mormons last November when, while serving as an LDS bishop, Kloosterman spoke at an LDS-LGBT conference in Salt Lake City […]

By Trevor Antley. Sunday’s GOP primary in Puerto Rico was called early. With only 16% of the vote in, Romney held a commanding 83% lead. Romney will also take the territory’s full slate of 20 delegates, per party rules that the territory becomes winner-take-all if a candidate garners more than 50% of the vote. Romney campaigned […]

By Trevor Antley. What could be more awesome than a Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, or Newt Gingrich action figure? If you said a Rick Perry or Herman Cain action figure, then you’re in luck. The custom-toy company Hero Builders has (most of) the 2012 cast, including Mitt, regular and talking versions of Santorum (including sweater vest […]

By Trevor Antley. That’s right. According to a new study coming out of BYU, pepper spray fares better against an angry bear than, say, a bullet traveling 896 miles per second. While this may come as a surprise to some, those who have been following developments in the bear community know that in recent years both grizzly […]

By Trevor Antley. Mitt Romney may have finished a disappointing third to Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich in the South on Tuesday, but later in the night he walked away with wins in little-watched contests in Hawaii and American Samoa. And despite the lack of fanfare, these Pacific wins meant that the former Massachusetts governor still […]

By Trevor Antley. This month’s edition of the Student Review, an independent newspaper managed by current and former BYU students, features an editorial by Nick Norman, a gay BYU student who writes candidly about his coming to terms with his sexuality in a culture and religion that is not often seen as sympathetic to homosexuality. You […]

By Trevor Antley. Mitt Romney could have ended the GOP battle with wins in the South, but the former Massachussetts governor just can’t break his Southern losing streak. Multiple polls had Romney either leading or tied for the lead in both the Mississippi and Alabama primaries. He had the endorsement of Mississippi’s Republican governor. Even Jeff […]

By Trevor Antley. Yeah Samake is currently the mayor of the Malian town of Ouelessebougou. Samake is also a popular candidate for the African country’s presidency. And Samake and his family are also Mali’s only Mormons. Like most Malians, Samake grew up in poverty, and he once recalled his mother tying his and his brothers stomach […]

By Trevor Antley. Prominent Florida pastor and Rick Santorum supporter Rev. O’Neal Dozier sent a press release today demanding that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney renounce his “racist Mormon religion.” Romney is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly called the Mormon or LDS Church. Dozier and other yet-to-be-named black religious […]

By Jon Bjornn. Is KONY 2012 really a good idea? After a day of ignoring all my classes and researching the implications of the LRA and Joseph Kony I’ve probably changed my mind about this whole thing five different times. The biggest thing I’ve learned is that nothing is quite as simple as it seems, and […]