Shipps, a towering religious scholar who specialized in Mormon history, though she wasn't a member of that faith, has died at ...

On this week’s show, Bowman, head of Mormon studies at Claremont Graduate University and author of the recently released “Joseph Fielding Smith: A Mormon Theologian,” talks about this ...

If, as it sadly appears, the New York Times was, in the name of greater inclusion, attempting to stigmatize or shame a deceased LDS prophet and the Mormon faith, its efforts amount to the kind of ...

This violence claimed many lives, including Mormon prophet Joseph Smith's, and eventually led to the Mormons seeking refuge outside the boundaries of the United States. Other opposition stemmed ...

The two quarreled. Campbell went one way to establish his "Campbellite" Disciples, Rigdon another to foist upon the world the Book of Mormon and its youthful prophet. Hence the skill which suited ...

In keeping with original Mormon teachings, much of the property ... She is a plural wife to Jim Jeffs, one of the prophet's nephews and an elder in the FLDS. But she is also the daughter of ...

Joseph F. Smith, nephew of the founding prophet, and his family. Courtesy: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Of all the Mormon doctrines, none caused as much ...

The Mormon Church's annual conference on April ... But it also drew more outrage from doubtful members of the church. “Today’s prophets are disavowing yesterday’s prophets,” Runnells ...

That year the Mormon Church, based upon the revelations of this book, was established in a farmhouse in Fayette, N. Y., and Joseph Smith became its first Prophet. Soon the golden plates were ...