Which celebrities are mormons

Who Are the Seventh-Day Adventists? Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world. Copyright , Patheos. All rights reserved. I've seen it in small ways. I've seen it in grand ways. I just feel the connection my parents had and that the Church helped foster for me as a child. I am incredibly grateful for it because I just don't want to do it alone.

Even with friends and family, there is nothing like having faith and feeling like there is a higher being on my side that cares. Kreuger's Christmas the most unique of his famous career, according to the Deseret News. Occasionally we would come to a log which had fallen down. It was too hard to split, too wet to burn and too heavy to move, so we plowed around it. You go back and tell Brigham Young that if he will let me alone I will let him alone.

With his family of seven, clean comedy, and love of Salt Lake City and fry sauce, Jim Gaffigan has acquired a large following of Mormons. In fact, as Gaffigan says , "I've even joked that I look like a Mormon. Is it necessary to curse? Rhys-Davies, best known for his roles as Gimli in Lord of the Rings and Sallah in Indiana Jones , said of Mormons, "You're a strange community to us on the outside, but I find you very warm and very welcoming and very friendly—a considerate people.

I like you. And you make it very clear you are willing to put up with me despite the fact that I am far less godly than you guys are. I meet these young men and they must go home night after night with a sense of abject failure. And [then they] have to get up the next morning and try and do better. When they finally manage to go home they will have matured and nothing again in their lives will ever be as hard and difficult as that.

Nothing can be as bad. If I can do that, I can do anything, and that's a very significant ritual you have evolved. Very impressive. President Ronald Reagan held Latter-day Saints in very high regard. In fact, he was the U. As president, he often asked about Church programs.

He recognized the Church's moral leadership and social influence, even declaring, 'A Mormon contribution to American life is beyond measuring. She reportedly still identifies as a Mormon, although she doesn't follow the religion's strict rules regarding personal choices. Pat Priest first got into acting by starring in productions that her mother wrote for the Mormon Church.

Donny Osmond was raised in a Mormon household and he still practices the religion today. Of not serving a mission for the LDS church, Osmond said, "It would have been nice to be able to have served a regular full-time mission, but when I was of that age, my career was such that everyone, including my parents and the leaders of the church, thought that I could do a lot of good in the world by continuing being in the public eye, by living an exemplary life and sharing my beliefs in every way that I could.

She was born in Cedar City, Utah. She still practices the faith today. Arcade Fire musician Will Butler was raised in a Mormon household. While he doesn't practice the faith as much today, he's grateful for the values it instilled in him. If you grow up just watching MTV, that's its own form of religion and it's not even based on happiness or communal responsibility. I mean, try to construct a worldview out of that.

He often promotes the faith in interviews. His second cousins are fellow Mormons, the Osmonds. The Aquabats musician and Yo Gabba Gabba! He served as a missionary in the Sendai, Japan in He served as a missionary in Japan for the church in He says, "Our spiritual beliefs encompass our whole life and understanding of who we are and what we do.

He was a practicing Mormon all throughout his life. Jack Dempsey was baptized in the Mormon faith in He wrote, "I'm proud to be a Mormon. And ashamed to be the Jack Mormon that I am," condemning himself for not religiously following Mormon principles.

He left college for two years to serve as a missionary in Australia. She trains in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has held many prominent positions in the church including as a bishop. In , she was featured in the church's "I'm a Mormon" campaign. She is best known for her role on Criminal Minds. While some stars are passionate about their love for their faith, others have openly admitted to struggling with the tenets of religious doctrine.

For members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, that doctrine — which includes abstaining from premarital sex, cigarettes, drugs, alcohol, tea and keeping oneself "temple worthy" — can be hard to put into practice, especially when fame comes knocking. Join Wonderwall. The Oscar-nominated "American Hustle" star has said she was brought up in a Mormon household but was forced to leave the church when she was 7 due to her parents' divorce.

While she no longer practices the faith, she does admit that she still carries a lot of "religious guilt" whenever she goes out and has fun with her friends: "You can't really misbehave without feeling badly about it — at least I can't.

Although we aren't certain exactly when Golden Globe-nominated "Sully" actor Aaron Eckhart left the Mormon faith, we do know his parents are practicing members and their influence, as well as that of the church, remains an important part of his life.

In a interview with The Telegraph, Aaron said, "I can't really say I'm a practicing Mormon now, but there are influences. You have it in your blood and bones. To me, spirituality transcends any sort of organization, but I believe there is a right and wrong and a higher power.

Grammy-winning singer Christina Aguilera is also rumored to have been raised in the Mormon faith, although she's never confirmed or denied the claim.

What we do know is that her parents met while attending Brigham Young University a private university owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and reportedly married in a Mormon temple before divorcing when Christina was 7. They also reportedly received home-visiting teachers from the church. It's also been claimed that the "Lady Marmalade" singer identifies as a Catholic.

Before his death, Paul shared in an interview with USA Today that his faith helped him hold himself accountable and make choices especially about who he dated that were in line with his values.

Although he no longer considered himself a Mormon, he did identify as a non-denominational Christian in his later years. Singer Jewel 's family once belonged to the LDS faith but left when she was 8 due to her parents' divorce.