Lawrence A. Young

LAWRENCE A. YOUNG is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

“Arise from the Dust and Be Men”: Responses to President Benson’s Address to Single Men — Being Single, Mormon, and Male

Single male members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints face a number of difficult issues. With my impressions of President Ezra Taft Benson’s address at the April 1988 priesthood session of general…

The Uncertain Dynamics of LDS Expansion, 1950-2020

Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 1

More than ever before the LDS church seems to measure its milestones in terms of numbers. Almost every issue of the Church News and the En sign includes an article or a graphic that highlights…