Word: mormon
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Clark—a devout Mormon who has served as bishop, or lay leader of his congregation, in the Church—will leave HBS July 31 following a decade as the school’s top administrator...
...press conference in Hawes Hall at HBS this afternoon, Clark said he received a call last month from Gordon B. Hinckley, the president of the Mormon Church, asking him to assume the helm of BYU-Idaho...
According to Sparhawk, the all-undergraduate student body is 99 percent Mormon and draws from all 50 states and 40 countries. Although the school, initially known as Ricks College, was founded in 1888, it has only offered bachelors degrees for the past five years...
...With controversy came celebrity, and with that, backlash. While at Brigham Young, LaBute, who grew up in a nondenominational church, had joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, which owns the university, to become a Mormon: "I was young and searching for things in my life - education, meaning - which opened me up to whatever came my way. I was around the religion, its members and its doctrine all the time. I investigated it and ultimately found it was something that I needed in general. But as I became more involved in the specifics, I became less interested...
Most Americans don't know about the Utah War of 1857-58. President James Buchanan sent thousands of federal troops into the desert to install his own, non-Mormon Governor. The people of Utah did not respond well. They spooked the federal livestock and burned the federal wagons. They incinerated 368,000 lbs. of military provisions...