Mormons are becoming a ‘true part of the American culture’ - Anniston Star

A little ditty about the Mormon faith written by a newspaper in Alabama.

You'd think that one story covering everything from the church's founding to TLC's "Sister Wives" to Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman to the Tony award winning The Book of Mormon would be biting off more than one journalist (or their readers) could chew.

But it is a great overview of the Church.

This

is as American as

This?

And This?

Using as sources, a local Bishop (and converted Mormon), a fellow journalist (also Mormon), the "foremost non-Mormon scholar of the Latter Day Saint movement" (so says Wikipedia about Jan Shipps), and a University of Richmond professor (and Mormon), the author gets a pretty good understanding of how many Mormons feel about themselves and how many of them view themselves in history.

Mormons rising: Mormons are becoming a ‘true part of the American culture’

by Brett Buckner

Special to The Star

Sid Kooyman has never felt like a stranger in a strange land.

Since moving to Jacksonville in 1986 to teach ROTC at Jacksonville State University, the career soldier assimilated himself within this close-knit college community by doing the things that virtually everyone else does, including regularly attending church. But it is where Kooyman worships that occasionally raises the eyebrows of his faithful peers.

To read the rest of the story, go here.