Joseph Smith on film: Six actors ... What’s tricky with portraying a religious figure like Smith isn’t the look; ... associate professor of church history and doctrine at Brigham Young ...

Scholar Todd Compton explores what historical documents say about the 33 wives of Mormonism's founder Joseph Smith, whether they had sex with the LDS prophet, and if there is evidence of children.

Visitors to the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library now will be able to see — and hold in their hands — historic papers signed by Mormon founder Joseph Smith, his brother Hyrum ...

Photo: "Six Days in August" "There are some who think Brigham Young wasn't a prophet, that somehow the Church went astray after Joseph died. But without Brigham, there is no line of authority.

Joseph F. Smith is just as much responsible for their solidification and perpetuation into the 20th century as Brigham Young was for beginning them. Gray • And for that reason, I want to have a ...

Brigham Young’s not on record as saying, “I’m worried that Joseph’s going to ask for my wife as an Abrahamic sacrifice.” It’s not very subtle, though. No, I don’t think it’s subtle.

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 ...

These Joseph Smith revelations were never canonized. A new book seeks to bring attention to them for Latter-day Saints and other readers.