On this week's "Mormon Land" podcast, scholar Matthew Bowman discusses former church President Joseph Fielding Smith and his ...

when Phillips questioned church lawyer David Jordan on conflicting accounts about the Book of Mormon being translated by ...

On the eve of a climatic battle with the Lamanites ... increasing anti-Mormon feeling. Joseph Smith will eventually have more than 25 wives, while Young will come to embrace the doctrine, take ...

3 The resulting manuscript, the Book of Mormon, was published in March 1830. On April 6, 1830, Joseph Smith organized The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and became its first president.

Soon after publishing The Book of Mormon in 1830, Joseph Smith left his home in Palmyra, New York with several dozen followers. Over the next fifteen years, Smith's Latter-day Saints would ...

Did the Mormons really think for themselves or did Joseph Smith think for them?" The cycle of violence climaxed in 1844 in Nauvoo, Ill., when Smith was killed by an angry mob. Following Smith's ...

Time to Go Mormons had been considering moving west -- beyond the borders of the United States -- since before Joseph Smith's 1844 murder, but his assassination made it clear that the period of ...

The Book of Mormon is “the physical manifestation of the truthfulness of the restoration and of the divine mission of the Prophet Joseph Smith,” taught Elder Neil L. Andersen on Sunday to a large ...

The seller was the Community of Christ, a denomination with 250,000 members based in Missouri, which—like the LDS ...

On the eve of a climatic battle with the Lamanites ... increasing anti-Mormon feeling. Joseph Smith will eventually have more than 25 wives, while Young will come to embrace the doctrine, take ...