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Rolly: Suggestions for new Mormon leaders — casual Fridays at the temple, cosplaying apostles, Facebook Live sacrament meetings

With the change in LDS Church leadership, the opportunity comes for new social policies that don’t compromise the faith’s eternal doctrines (blacks in the priesthood is a good example).

So, with an eye toward retaining the more progressive-minded Mormon millennials, here are a few tweaks that might make sense as President Russell M. Nelson and his team tackle the challenges facing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:

LDS Church Presidents, from left, Brigham Young, John Taylor, Lorenzo Snow and Jospeh F. Smith.
LDS Church Presidents, from left, Brigham Young, John Taylor, Lorenzo Snow and Jospeh F. Smith.

• Have a Political Diversity Day twice a month — perhaps on alternating Mondays with family home evening — to encourage faithful Mormons to watch MSNBC for two hours and share with the family nationally syndicated columns by Dana Milbank and E.