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How Did Mormons Grow So Fast? They Changed How They Counted

posted on May 8, 2012

The Salt Lake Tribune‘s religion reporter, Peggy Fletcher Stack, goes inside the exceptional growth rates the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) celebrated last week. According to Stack, the claim that between 2000 and 2010 the LDS Church was America’s fastest growing religious institution is misleading. It was more about about Mormons changing how they count their members than large-scale conversions to Mormonism.  

Read at The Salt Lake Tribune