(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. (RNS) — When John Turner’s biography ...
The friends I went to high school with are generally a good barometer for what news, gossip and stories about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are reaching the radar of people who don’t ...
The recently released Netflix miniseries “American Primeval” is a work of fiction that depicts Brigham Young and other Latter-day Saints in the 1850s as violent fanatics. Trading in the tired trope ...
In 1694, Puritan minister Cotton Mather mourned that the younger generation of Puritans was uniquely depraved. “Among all the deadly symptoms which threaten us with a speedy ruin,” he wrote, “there is ...
The founder of the Mormon Church rocked 19th-century America with his spiritual visions, his belief in polygamy—and even a presidential run. Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder and leader of the Church of ...