Forty years to the day after being baptized into the LDS Church, Denver C. Snuffer Jr. received word that he has been excommunicated from the Utah-based faith for apostasy. Snuffer, author of a ...

It’s been a long time since Mormons had a bona fide schism. Probably not since the disavowal of polygamy in 1890 has a major new movement threatened to siphon some fraction of Mormons away from the ...

The Remnant movement plans a big conference in Boise this week to canonize a new set of scriptures.<br> Sandy • Don’t call Denver Snuffer Jr. a prophet and don’t view his Remnant movement as a church.

In 2013, Denver Snuffer was excommunicated from the LDS Church because of his teachings — specifically, those contained in the book Passing the Heavenly Gift. Snuffer has claimed, among other things, ...

The current leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is 100 years old and reportedly in poor health — but while the church has an orderly succession plan, the Mormon history of ...

Members of Denver Snuffer’s Remnant movement meet in a Sandy, Utah home Aug. 13 to sing hymns and take sacrament. Scott Fisher, center, blesses the sacrament while Ken Jensen, left, and Taylor Child, ...