By 2020, Mormons will see clapping, brass instruments and some guitar music during worship services, an African apostle speaking at General Conference, female leaders counseling top LDS authorities on major decisions, humanitarian service as the centerpiece of missionary work, and weddings happening largely outside of the faith's temples.
These are some of the bold predictions Mormon scholar and writer Margaret Blair Young makes in a provocative Patheos essay about "The Future of Mormonism" for the next five years.
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