In recent years, the scholarly consensus in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints seems to be that Smith produced most of the text using a “seer stone” in a hat, where words somehow ...

The LDS Church provided a new glimpse of its origins Tuesday by publishing the handwritten "printer's manuscript" of the Book of Mormon and photos of the "seer stone," a dark, egg-size polished ...

Race? Seer stones? Polygamy? Mormon apostle M. Russell Ballard says the church's seminary teachers should address controversies openly to "inoculate" students. I have some cool news to share.

What will be the fallout? Seer stones, Urim and Thummin, golden plates: In the story of the coming forth of the Book of Mormon, all of these odd-sounding components play a part. But most ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (August 4, 2015)– The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released never-before-seen images of the “seer stone” used by Joseph Smith to translate the Book of ...

(KUTV) As part of an ongoing effort to demystify some of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' history, officials today released rare images of Joseph Smith's seer stone, said to help ...

The Mormon Church released photographs on Tuesday of a so-called “seer stone” that members believe was used by the Utah-based faith’s founder, Joseph Smith, to write the Book of Mormon ...