For Latter-day Saints across the globe, Thursday marks the 180th anniversary of a tragedy — on June 27, 1844, an armed mob stormed into Carthage Jail and took the lives of the prophet Joseph Smith and ...

The project team for the Joseph Smith Papers is set to release the final volume of the papers on June 27, the 179th anniversary of the Prophet’s martyrdom. The Joseph Smith Papers project is a ...

Was Joseph Smith a true prophet or a religious pretender? Vogel, who edited the five-volume series Early Mormon Documents, attempts to answer this and other questions in this somewhat tedious, ...

Here are some helpful extras before you press play about the flick. Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration starring Nathan Mitchell, Rick Macy, Tayva Patch, David Nibley has a Not Rated rating, ...

This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in ...

According to the press release, “Documents Volume 15” relates the final chapter of the Prophet Joseph Smith's life. Scholars within the Church and outside of it have lauded the series for the ...

On July 21, Mormons were rocked by news that a great-great-grandson of Joseph Smith had discovered a daguerreotype he believes to be the only known photograph of the prophet. Almost immediately, the ...

From its headquarters in Salt Lake City, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints claims more than sixteen million adherents around the world. For most people outside the faith, the little they ...

Seeing is believing, so the saying goes, and that was instantly true for some viewers of the recently discovered daguerreotype purporting to be Mormonism’s founder, Joseph Smith. “My immediate thought ...

This quirky, absorbing memoir by documentary film writer Barnes presents one answer to what historian Jan Shipps has called “the prophet puzzle”—was Mormon founder Joseph Smith a fraud or a religious ...

This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in ...

(RNS) — The polarized response to the photo reveals less about Joseph Smith than it does about us. (RNS) — On July 21, Mormons were rocked by news that a great-great-grandson of Joseph Smith had ...