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

Mountain Meadows. Courtesy: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Although Joseph Smith was no pacifist—he preached an aggressive self-defense against the Mormon Church's many ...

Joseph Smith III, the Mormon prophet's eldest son, becomes the president of the Reorganized Church. Its headquarters are established in Independence, Missouri. The Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act ...

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

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.

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.

Its author, Joseph Smith, was the son of ... to be used as a safe haven for the church. The paper reported that Tāwhiao was quite keen on the plan. But the Mormon elders obviously couldn ...

To read the Book of Mormon, one must find the Savior from its first chapter to the last, said President Russell M. Nelson in ...