The horror movie Heretic is one of the most prominent depictions of Mormonism in popular culture. One of the stars of the film was once a Mormon. Another was friends with Mormon missionaries while the ...

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

"Hell" of course being the back section of Mr. Reed's house, which includes a chapel he built himself, as well as two ...

The seller was the Community of Christ, a denomination with 250,000 members based in Missouri, which—like the LDS ...

But the movie’s horror also turns on the unique history of Mormonism and the cultural position of its young, bright-eyed, and ...

But they are unsympathetic toward the Negro, largely as a consequence of the strange church doctrines formulated by the first Mormon Prophet, Joseph Smith, and amplified by his successors.

many watching the movie “Ancient America Speaks” and learning the church’s story of the ancient origin of the Book of Mormon and how Joseph Smith said he found the texts in the 1800s.

Soon afterward, a vision instructs Smith to move the nascent Mormon community west to Kirtland. Other missionaries proceed to Missouri and settle in Independence. February: Joseph and Emma Smith ...

My favorite films are those that leave me thinking long after I walk out of the theater. When it's a borderline low-budget ...

Exclusive: Heretic raises questions about power, religion and control, but we unpack at least a few of the answers with the ...

The Book of Mormon was less than 25 years old before it reached the shores of Aotearoa in 1854. Its author, Joseph Smith, was the son of a farmer living in upstate New York. The early 1800s was a ...

Mormons believe that Christ's church was restored through Joseph Smith, who founded the faith with five associates in 1830 and published the Book of Mormon. The primary purpose of the temple is ...