New instructions to youth may mark start of cultural shift for Latter-day Saints

Church replaces half a century of rules about dress and grooming with admonition to let ‘truth and the Spirit be your guide’

A children’s and youth choir performs Oct. 1, 2022, at a conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. (Photo © Intellectual Reserve 2022)

Latter-day Saints could be at the start of their biggest cultural shifts in decades, thanks to the introduction of a new teaching booklet for youths that drops most arbitrary rules f…