Another Brit, Andrew Garfield, plays Detective Jeb Pyre, who finds his Mormon faith questioned as he investigates the crime and discovers how far some will go in the name of religion.
Together with its sister community of Hildale, Utah, it is the birthplace of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), a polygamous offshoot of the Mormon Church ...
Even in the United States, where polygamy is illegal, there are an estimated 50,000 people living in polygamy, the vast majority of them “Mormon fundamentalists”—a contentious term ...
The Fundamentalist Church is a subset of the Mormon Church, which no longer condones polygamy. Bateman married Marona Johnson in September 2019, taking her from Rifle, Colorado, back to his hometown ...
Composer Nico Muhly and his librettist Stephen Karam found the material for their open Dark Sisters, which was first performed in 2016, in stories about a fundamentalist breakaway sect of the Mormon ...