After nearly 60 years, Salt Lake City’s epicenter of anti-Mormonism is destined for rubble
The Tanners excoriated Utah’s predominant faith for decades from a bookstore on West Temple. Soon, it will close for good.
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Lighthouse Ministry in Salt Lake City on Monday, Nov. 21, 2022. The bookstore will close next year to make way for new development.
Blake joined The Tribune in March 2022 to cover city and county government before becoming an editor in 2024. He is a University of Minnesota graduate who started his journalism career in Las Vegas, where he covered local government, state politics and the depletion of the Colorado River. He is dad to a Golden Retriever named Woodward.
Hired in 1991 to cover Utah's various faiths, particularly Mormonism, Peggy has talked forgiveness with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, nearly fainted waiting for the Dalai Lama, fasted with Muslims during Ramadan — and has reported on 50 consecutive semiannual LDS General Conferences.