Paul wrote to the young pastor Timothy, "Watch your life and doctrine closely" (1 Timothy 4:16). Joseph Smith's life and doctrine were diametrically opposed to sexual purity and true doctrine.

I n 2012, scholar John Turner published an award-winning biography of Brigham Young, a mountain of a man in Western Americana.But there remained a bigger fish to pursue, namely Joseph Smith, the ...

Perhaps a true-to-life biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, can never be written. Smith’s claims to accessing the divine were too outlandish, his embrace of polygamy too ...

That was an interesting story you recounted of Brigham Young having a nightmare about seeing his first wife being driven off in a carriage with Joseph Smith. Yeah. Of course, I’m interpreting ...

IDAHO FALLS – Ben Watson smiles as he shows off his new family heirloom. The 43-year-old Rexburg man recently acquired a sword from an extended family member that dates back to 1837. It belonged ...

While living in Turnbridge, Vermont, Lucy recalled, she became “acquainted with a young man by the name of Joseph Smith, to whom I was subsequently married” in 1796.

(RNS) — ‘I think the evidence for Joseph’s polygamous sealings is pretty overwhelming,’ says historian John Turner, who has penned a new biography of Joseph Smith.

In 2012, scholar John Turner published an award-winning biography of Brigham Young, a mountain of a man in Western Americana. But there remained a bigger fish to pursue, namely Joseph Smith, the ...

Latter-day Saints Founder Joseph Smith Was 1st US Presidential Candidate Assassinated? Records show the church leader and Book of Mormon author was killed by an Illinois mob in 1844.