The book appears certain to go down as the most significant and up-to-date biography of the Mormon founder since Richard ...

Stassi D. Cramm was ordained the prophet-president of Community of Christ (formerly known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus ...

I think the evidence for Joseph’s polygamous sealings is pretty overwhelming,’ says historian John Turner, who has penned a ...

Born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont, to Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph Smith Jr. grew up on a series of tenant farms in Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York. Though in his youth ...

The founder and first prophet of Mormonism authored the three Mormon books. Joseph Smith (1805-1844) claimed he received golden plates from an angel named Moroniin 1827 containing information that ...

Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was the first known U.S. presidential candidate to ...

So I should perhaps have done a bit more digging when, a few years ago, one of them asked me whether historians had discovered that church founder Joseph Smith was not a polygamist. I knew about ...

Inspired by the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, Joseph Smith founded the most widely-practiced religion founded in the United States, the Mormon faith. Kevin O'Leary on EU willing ...

It's true that Joseph Smith announced a bid for the presidency in January 1844. A mob killed him in June of the same year when he was in custody at an Illinois jail. However… What's False Smith ...

who has penned a new biography of Joseph Smith. (RNS) — When John Turner’s biography of Brigham Young was published more than a decade ago, I marveled at his skill in dealing with a (very!) ...

It's true that Joseph Smith announced a bid for the presidency in January 1844. A mob killed him in June of the same year when he was in custody at an Illinois jail. However … What's False Smith ...