Imagine if Joseph Smith belonged to the church in Corinth. Paul taught the Corinthian Christians how to discipline anyone in ...

Like other leaders of his day and our own day, Brigham Young sometimes used violent rhetoric. But his actions tell a different story. In winter 1838, while Joseph Smith was imprisoned on false ...

The second pronouncement, in particular, causes great division among Mormons, with Brigham Young stating he would rather die and Joseph Smith's wife Emma expressing opposition even though the ...

“Brigham Young as he really spoke was far more inclusive ... summarizes as “a total desire to serve God, to follow Joseph Smith, to teach the gospel, to lead the people and establish ...

Derek Sainsbury, a professor of church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University ... when the faith’s founder, Joseph Smith, became the first U.S. presidential candidate to be slain ...

Brigham Young. He was indeed one of the founding fathers of Mormonism and the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After Joseph Smith's death, he brought thousands ...

Joseph Smith announces a revelation setting up the ... Smith and most of his followers -- including a new member named Brigham Young -- leave Kirtland for Independence, Missouri, where Smith ...

Neither Joseph Smith nor the Mormon missionaries shied ... 1865, from the Mormon Panorama. Courtesy of Brigham Young University Museum of Art Just a few months after the Mormon Church was founded ...