SALT LAKE CITY — Mormon critics reacting to the release of photos of Mormon founder Joseph Smith’s chocolate-colored “seer stone,” see it as another reason to view the Mormon prophet as a ...

Polygamy's origins are unclear. What is known is that in 1843, Joseph Smith dictated the revelation authorizing polygamy, claiming God had commanded his people to live in plural marriages and ...

Joseph then goes to that spot on the hill -- it's not far from where the Smith family farm was -- and he locates the place there on the hill, and the plates are under a rock, which he'd seen very ...

These Joseph Smith revelations were never canonized. ... Another revelation, reminiscent of D&C Section 87′s 1832 prophecy of a deadly Civil War between the North and South, ...

Joseph’s scribe William Clayton wrote down the polygamy revelation sentence by sentence in the Prophet’s second-floor office of the redbrick store, while Smith dictated. (The revelation was ...

Debate continues about how Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon, ... Even so, the historian is not troubled by a rock of revelation or other religious artifacts.

“The fact that the Book of Mormon is presented as a translation of an ancient record rather than simply a direct revelation to Joseph Smith is one of its salient features,” says Hardy, a ...

Joseph Smith, Mormon church founder and prophet, took as many as 40 wives, at least one as young as 14, leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have acknowledged in a series of ...

John G. Turner’s new book is a nimble account that showcases the frenzied core of Smith’s soul.

Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon religion, was born in Vermont on Dec. 23, 1805. ... But the historian is not troubled by a rock of revelation or other religious artifacts.

Joseph Smith was the Henry Ford of revelation. He wanted every home to have one, and the revelation he had in mind was the revelation he'd had, which was seeing God.