Jana Riess: How LDS President Russell Nelson is retooling a church shaped by the culture wars since its founding
Debates over gender, race and sexuality have been part of the faith since Kirtland, says historian Benjamin Park.
(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Emma and Joseph Smith. Historian Benjamin Park notes that Emma “was agitating for change and a space within" the months of the fledgling faith's founding.