In 1820, then a teenager, Joseph Smith and his family were caught up in what Smith described as a “war of words and tumult of opinions” regarding religion (JSH 1.10).

Debate continues about how Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon, the foundational scripture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Monday’s hearing brought up a fascinating turn in Mormon history, when Phillips questioned church lawyer David Jordan on conflicting accounts about the Book of Mormon being translated by ...

Read More: The Living Book of Mormon But for the scores of believers who followed Smith’s teachings, the book represented an open canon of truth and a sign that God still spoke to a modern world.

For four decades, a Utah family has kept a first-edition copy of the Book of Mormon tucked into a safe-deposit box in Logan. Now, they're ready to sell it, likely for far more than $100,000.

One of these Nephites was the prophet Mormon, who would eventually write part of the Book of Mormon, later transcribed by Joseph Smith.

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 ...

The Book of Mormon Pavilion was like all the buildings on the Expo grounds, which were modular and designed to be removed at the end of the fair.

We give a listen to the original Broadway cast album of the Trey Parker-Robert Lopez-Matt Stone musical Book of Mormon , a show nominated for 14 Tony Awards.