when Phillips questioned church lawyer David Jordan on conflicting accounts about the Book of Mormon being translated by ...

Historian Benjamin Park notes increasing tensions in the field of Mormon studies between scholars and the institutional church.

Ben Watson is a direct descendant of one of the men involved in Joseph Smith's murder and owns the sword that belonged to his ...

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 ...

Mormons are advised to abstain from coffee, tea, and alcohol as part of the Word of Wisdom,” a health code received by the ...

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 ...

Just before the large congregation attending the final session of the semi-annual conference of the Mormons was dismissed this afternoon. President Joseph F. Smith, the head of the church ...

Joseph Fielding Smith was, scholar Matthew Bowman argues, “the most important Latter-day Saint theologian of the 20th century.” On this week’s show, Bowman, head of Mormon studies at ...

Perched atop a hill in the heart of Kirtland, the Joseph and Emma Smith Home has seen its share of residents and ...

Anti-Mormon sentiment spread, inflamed particularly by reports of polygamy. By then, the practice of plural marriage had expanded beyond Joseph Smith's inner circle, and word of it had been passed ...

Mormons are advised to abstain from coffee, tea, and alcohol as part of the Word of Wisdom,” a health code received by the church’s founder, Joseph Smith, which is now considered scripture.