Special ‘Mormon Land’ from Europe: The LDS Church isn’t dying here, but it is changing

Born in West Germany, Ralf Grünke has been a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for most of his life. But it was complicated. And, among his Catholic and Lutheran peers, that meant he sometimes keenly felt his “otherness.”Still, being “an ugly duckling between the swans,” Grunke has written, was a “blessing in disguise.”He studied his own faith deeply, reading everything he could find, pro or con, as well as other faiths, and develo