What are the major issues faced by the LDS Church? Where to start? A host of issues surround LGBT questions. There are the recently highlighted questions of women's place in the Church. Race remains a huge question, though one that is often overlooked and one that may, perhaps, be on the mend.
What about the global growth of the Church, with so many no longer sharing the culture and language of what, for over a hundred years, has been assumed to be the native culture of Mormonism? In another hundred years, or even fifty, will it continue to make sense for English to be the lingua franca of the Church? How will the even larger entity that the LDS Church is on its way toward becoming be administered effectively? More central to Mormon identity, what kind of cohesion will a church lacking a common cultural and linguistic heritage across its congregations and amongst its leaders have?
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