A special 'Mormon Land' podcast from Germany about the LDS Church's status in Europe.
Latter-day Saints and friends of the faith listen to a devotional with apostle Dieter F. Uchtdorf in Friedrichsdorf, Germany, in 2022.
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.” He studied his own faith deeply, reading everything he could find, pro or con, as well as other faiths, and developed a strong foundation spiritually and scholarly. He now enjoys a spectrum of friends and contacts among all religions, while representing the Utah-based church.
Ralf Grünke, shown in Hamburg, Germany, is the assistant communication director for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Central Europe. Grunke is the church’s assistant communication director for Central Europe, headquartered in Frankfurt. He joined “Mormon Land” for a special on-location podcast in Hamburg about the faith’s status on the Continent.‘Mormon Land’: Doubling down on garments and motherhood may not keep young women in the foldOpinion: Utah runners must support the EPA methane ruleFor years Utahns had to trespass to access this trail. There’s a solution in the works, but they don’t like it.
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