“The Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as President of this Church to lead you astray. It is not in the programme. It is not in the mind of God. If I were to attempt that ...

Sometimes the spirit prompts the prophet’s wife to leave the bed, though she’d rather sleep. One such morning, Wendy Nelson told Mormon leaders, her husband emerged from the bedroom waving a ...

"Mormons generally like certainty, they like to testify of things that they know," Haglund says. "They like to feel certain that the prophet will never lead them astray and will tell them what ...

Higbee (whose betrothed, the brighteyed Nancy Rigdon, had also been unsuccessfully wooed by the prophet), Chauncey L. Higbee, brother of Francis, − not a Mormon, I believe, but an adventurous ...

How does the Mormon Church choose its next president and prophet? By seniority of service. Though it is an unofficial policy set down in no Mormon scripture, the church has always chosen the ...

considered "prophet, seer and revelator" in the 15 million-member church. Nelson's chance was 19 percent before Packer's death. Those statistics are according to an algorithm by a Mormon ...

Hmmm. As a Mormon who believes in being open to continuing revelation, I’m grateful that we have apostles and prophets. I sustain them in their callings. That does not mean, however, that they ...

Nelson urged his listeners to look to Mormon authorities to help guide them in these challenging times. “Prophets see ahead. They see the harrowing dangers the adversary has placed or will yet p ...

The book was said to be written by ancient prophets who lived in the Americas, and Moroni asked Smith to translate the ancient text into English. In the introduction to the Book of Mormon ...

"I think the Lord expects us to think," President Gordon B. Hinckley, the incumbent prophet who Mormons believe leads the church through divine revelation, told NEWSWEEK. "That which comes easily ...

The seller was the Community of Christ, a denomination with 250,000 members based in Missouri, which—like the LDS Church—traces its origins to the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith. Many onlookers ...