What was it like to be there and witness Joseph Smith receiving revelations? Brigham Young was a witness and said this, “Those who were acquainted with (the Prophet Joseph) knew when the Spirit of ...

Would any man with forty wives, teenage brides and other men’s wives, ever become a spiritual leader of a New Testament ...

Vol. 61, No. 2/3, Special Issue: Methodological Debates in the Study of Religion (2014), pp. 182-207 (26 pages) The Mormon claim that Joseph Smith discovered ancient golden plates buried in a hillside ...

Mormons affirm Jesus as the Son of God and Savior, yet their understanding of His work differs. The Book of Mormon says: “For we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do” (2 ...

Latter-day Saints might be surprised at how “Joseph Smith and the Mormons” starts. Not with the “First Vision,” in which a 14-year-old Smith reported that God and Jesus Christ appeared to him in a New ...

In the spring of 1820, when the Joseph Smith Sr. family was living near Palmyra, New York, a religious fervor swept the area. Preachers of various religions were holding revivals and seeking converts.

The founder of the Mormon Church rocked 19th-century America with his spiritual visions, his belief in polygamy—and even a presidential run.