A Mormon leader urged members Saturday during a church conference not to be timid about defending church founder Joseph Smith's story and role as the faith's first prophet despite \ ...

For years, critics have pointed to the differing accounts of Joseph Smith's so-called "First Vision" as proof that the Mormon founder made up his boyhood encounter with the divine.

Mormon leaders have acknowledged for the first time that the church's founder and prophet, Joseph Smith, portrayed in church materials as a loyal partner to his loving spouse, Emma, took as many as ...

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On this week's "Mormon Land" podcast, Salt Lake Tribune journalists Peggy Fletcher Stack and David Noyce discuss the biggest stories of 2022 in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...

Reality TV series The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives follows a number of social media influencers from the Church of Jesus ...

‘Mormon Land’: Biggest stories of 2022 — from a Joseph Smith photo to BYU troubles and a marriage surprise At long last, a photo of Mormon founder Joseph Smith emerges ...

The Reorganized Mormons claim that Young’s attribution of polygamy to Joseph Smith was a base libel. Emma Hale, say they, was the prophet’s first and only wife, even though the Dictionary of ...

On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois, hunting down a man they saw as a grave threat to their quiet lives: the founding prophet of Mormonism, Joseph ...

• The Garden Room, done by Joseph Everett and Robert Shepherd in the early 1940s, was painted not on plaster but on canvas. “The plaster wall itself is what cracks,” Schoenmann said.

A Mormon leader urged members Saturday during a church conference not to be timid about defending church founder Joseph Smith's story and role as the faith's first prophet despite "erroneous ...