Reacting to anti-Mormon harassment, church leader Sidney Rigdon gave an intemperate July 4th oration in which he spoke of a "war of extermination" between Mormons and their neighbors. When those ...

The Mormon War The massacre came about in the context of a rising conflict between Mormon leader Brigham Young and the federal government. When the Mormons had first arrived in the Salt Lake area ...

As LDS leaders centralized the church’s authority ... A century later, Exponent II emerged during the second-wave feminist movement as Mormon women again sought to explore the tensions of ...

SEE ALSO: Mormon church leaders announce support for LGBT rights -- with a catch A leak of internal church documents posted to r/exmormon Friday led to the group’s biggest one-day surge in ...

At that point, Smith's polygamy was acknowledged only to the LDS Church's senior leaders. In a raid on the jail, an anti-Mormon mob shot the church founder to death. He was 38. "Few episodes in ...