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‘Mormon Land’: Did Joseph Smith practice polygamy? What the evidence shows and why it matters.

In 2014, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints published an official essay detailing Joseph Smith’s marriages to multiple women. After decades of insisting otherwise, the Community of Christ ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

‘Mormon Land’: Was Joseph Smith a prophet or a scoundrel? New biography shows bits of both.

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 ...
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Timeline: Key points in the life of Joseph Smith

Church records state Joseph Smith saw God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ in the spring of 1820. This event is known as the First Vision. The following are key events in the life of Joseph Smith ...
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‘Joseph Smith’ is a clear-eyed biography of the Mormon founder

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 ...