Ben Watson is a direct descendant of one of the men involved in Joseph Smith's murder and owns the sword that belonged to his ...

when Phillips questioned church lawyer David Jordan on conflicting accounts about the Book of Mormon being translated by ...

Perched atop a hill in the heart of Kirtland, the Joseph and Emma Smith Home has seen its share of residents and ...

3 The resulting manuscript, the Book of Mormon, was published in March 1830. On April 6, 1830, Joseph Smith organized The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and became its first president.

Neither Joseph Smith nor the Mormon missionaries ... Reacting to anti-Mormon harassment, church leader Sidney Rigdon gave an intemperate July 4th oration in which he spoke of a "war of ...

Women are second-class citizens in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, guest columnist Emily W. Jensen concludes ...

Mormons are advised to abstain from coffee, tea, and alcohol as part of the Word of Wisdom,” a health code received by the ...

Although Joseph Smith was no pacifist—he preached an ... came about in the context of a rising conflict between Mormon leader Brigham Young and the federal government. When the Mormons had ...

Joseph Fielding Smith was, scholar Matthew Bowman argues, “the most important Latter-day Saint theologian of the 20th century.” On this week’s show, Bowman, head of Mormon studies at ...

After the first mayor is excommunicated, Smith becomes both mayor and military leader ... division among Mormons, with Brigham Young stating he would rather die and Joseph Smith's wife Emma ...