Perhaps a true-to-life biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, can never be written. Smith’s claims to accessing the divine were too outlandish, his embrace of polygamy too ...
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How the study of Mormon history has changed: 'We have learned to face up to our facts and to be very candid'
For more than nine decades, he has lived it, studied it, analyzed it, shared it with fellow believers and explained it to nonbelievers. The soft-spoken scholar — with three degrees from Harvard and a ...
KALAMAZOO -- Growing up in a small town in Wyoming, "an annex of Utah," playwright Erik Ramsey lived near a large number of Mormons. The young religion, relatively speaking, and the story of its ...
SALT LAKE CITY -- Mormon church founder Joseph Smith had a teenage bride and was married to other men's wives during the early days of the faith when polygamy was practiced, a new church essay ...
The Church of Latter Day Saints has deep roots in Vermont. Mormon founder Joseph Smith was born in Sharon on Dec. 23, 1805. Brigham Young, who led the Saints from the Midwest to Utah and ruled the ...
In an essay posted without fanfare to its website in late October, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said for the first time that Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon church, had as many ...
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