(RNS) — In 2000 and 2001, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints focused its worldwide curriculum on the teachings of Joseph F. Smith (1838 – 1918), a nephew of the founding prophet ...

In 2000 and 2001, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints focused its worldwide curriculum on the teachings of Joseph F. Smith (1838-1918), a nephew of the founding prophet, Joseph Smith ...

"The restoration of the fullness of Christian doctrine is a sunburst of light and truth," President Dallin H. Oaks said at the 2025 Seminar for New Mission Leaders.

By Lorianne Flint. During Tuesday?s Devotional, President Hinckley dedicated and consecrated the new Joseph F. Smith Building as a place for teaching and learning where God?s work could be fulfilled.

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 ...

Joseph Fielding Smith was, scholar Matthew Bowman argues, “the most important Latter-day Saint theologian of the 20th century.”. Here are lightly edited excerpts from The Salt Lake Tribune’s ...