I n 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 ...

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 ...

Paul wrote to the young pastor Timothy, "Watch your life and doctrine closely" (1 Timothy 4:16). Joseph Smith's life and doctrine were diametrically opposed to sexual purity and true doctrine.

That was an interesting story you recounted of Brigham Young having a nightmare about seeing his first wife being driven off in a carriage with Joseph Smith. Yeah. Of course, I’m interpreting ...

While living in Turnbridge, Vermont, Lucy recalled, she became “acquainted with a young man by the name of Joseph Smith, to ...

(RNS) — ‘I think the evidence for Joseph’s polygamous sealings is pretty overwhelming,’ says historian John Turner, who has penned a new biography of Joseph Smith.

Even Brigham Young was worried Joseph Smith was going to take his wife. That was an interesting story you recounted of Brigham Young having a nightmare about seeing his first wife being driven off ...

Latter-day Saints Founder Joseph Smith Was 1st US Presidential Candidate Assassinated? Records show the church leader and Book of Mormon author was killed by an Illinois mob in 1844.