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 ...
For Latter-day Saints across the globe, Thursday marks the 180th anniversary of a tragedy — on June 27, 1844, an armed mob stormed into Carthage Jail and took the lives of the prophet Joseph Smith and ...
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.
After Joseph Smith’s death in 1844, the young Mormon Church faced chaos, betrayal, and the question of who would lead next. This documentary explores how Brigham Young and later prophets rebuilt the ...
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MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell apologized Wednesday night for inaccurate comments he made a week earlier about the origins of the Mormon church. “I am truly sorry if I said something inaccurate about ...