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 ...

On this week's "Mormon Land" podcast, scholar Matthew Bowman discusses former church President Joseph Fielding Smith and his ...

Born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont, to Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph Smith Jr. grew up on a series of tenant farms in Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York. Though in his youth ...

when Phillips questioned church lawyer David Jordan on conflicting accounts about the Book of Mormon being translated by ...

The Church emphasizes the need for divine authority. As Joseph Smith, first prophet and President of the Church, taught, "A man must be called of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands by ...

Joseph F. Smith, nephew of the founding prophet, and his family. Courtesy: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Of all the Mormon doctrines, none caused as much ...

The seller was the Community of Christ, a denomination with 250,000 members based in Missouri, which—like the LDS ...

Joseph Smith III, the Mormon prophet's eldest son, becomes the president of the Reorganized Church. Its headquarters are established in Independence, Missouri. The Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act ...

Jane Smith, a black pioneer, walks thousands of miles barefoot, to see the Mormon Church prophet Joseph Smith. On the way, she encounters difficulties and finally reaches Smith’s family home.