The Doyle family home in Provo features a unique centerpiece on the dining room wall: a large hooked rug, depicting a 14-year-old Joseph Smith praying in the Sacred Grove, just before his First ...

Mormon founder Joseph Smith was 14 years old when he said the God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to him in response to a prayer 200 years ago. Ever since, teenagers have played key roles in ...

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) A scene from a cartoon released by the church to teach children about the faith’s history of polygamy shows church founder Joseph Smith praying.

According to the testimony of Joseph Smith's younger brother William, Joseph, at age 14, had heard Rev. George Lane preach a sermon on "what church shall I join" and quoted from the New Testament ...

But it was in this small town in the Finger Lakes where Joseph Smith, ... According to LDS doctrine, Smith had this Vision in 1820, when he went out to the grove to pray. While praying, ...

Joseph Smith Jr. said the he had his First Vision of Christ in the woods of Palmyra, New York, in 1820. More visions led to the Book of Mormon and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Blood vows: Joseph Smith, Mormonism and the invention of American polygamy How polygamy created a schism among early Mormons — and ultimately led to the murder of the religion's founder ...

“Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration” (2005) Mitchell is the screen Smith most current Latter-day Saints know, since he played the founder in a much-screened church-produced biography.