If people within and without The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints think the Utah-based faith is going to abandon anytime soon the latest push to jettison popular references to the nicknames “Mormon” and “LDS” when describing the religion — as has happened before — they best think again.
This past weekend, church President Russell M. Nelson reaffirmed his commitment to the cause during a visit to Canada.
“We know that it's going to be a challenge to undo tradition of more than a hundred years,” he told a congregation of Latter-day Saints in Montreal.