Jana Riess: For Latter-day Saints, being led by old men can be a blessing and a curse
With an average age of 90, top church leaders are unlikely to be named in headlines about religious sex scandals. The cost of gerontocracy, though, is that they are also resistant to needed social change.
(Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) President Russell M. Nelson, center, greets M. Russell Ballard, acting president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, while followed by his counselors, Dallin H. Oaks and Henry B. Eyring, in 2019.