‘Mormon Land’: The conservative LDS prophet who led fights over evolution, the age of the Earth and orthodoxy
On this week's "Mormon Land" podcast, scholar Matthew Bowman discusses former church President Joseph Fielding Smith and his ...
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Joseph Smith
On April 6, 1830, Joseph Smith organized The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and became its first ... He was a controversial figure in American history—beloved of his followers ...
Latest from Mormon Land: Is it time for real repentance over those anti-LDS chants at BYU games?
In the latest LDS news, suggestions for penalizing colleges if vulgar anti-Latter-day Saint chants break out at BYU games; ...
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LDS Church changes its polygamy cartoons for children — including the message
Only a few months after The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints published an illustrated ... the chapter on plural marriage begins with church founder Joseph Smith and other Latter-day ...
‘These words have gone into my heart like fire,’ says Latter-day Saint apostle about the Book of Mormon
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 ...
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Not All Mormons Are Latter-day Saints
In the 1880s, when Congress debated putting Mormon polygamists in prison, Joseph Smith III sent a letter ... Park teaches American history at Sam Houston State University. He is the author of ...
LDS Church changes its polygamy cartoons for children — including the message
The LDS Church has revised illustrations explaining polygamy to kids, eliminating some cartoons and changing the message from "obedience" to "a rare exception" to the teaching of monogamy.