On this week's "Mormon Land" podcast, scholar Matthew Bowman discusses former church President Joseph Fielding Smith and his conservative and, at times, controversial views.

3 The resulting manuscript, the Book of Mormon, was published in March 1830. On April 6, 1830, Joseph Smith organized The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and became its first president.

The storybook chapter on plural marriage began with Joseph Smith and other Latter-day Saint ... just as horrible a stain on the history of the LDS Church as it ever was, and I don’t think ...

which—like the LDS Church—traces its origins to the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith. Many onlookers were surprised to learn that the LDS Church didn’t already own the first temple built by the ...

LOGAN, Utah — The Book of Mormon is “the physical manifestation of the truthfulness of the restoration and of the divine mission of the Prophet Joseph Smith,” taught Elder Neil L.

A The Book of Mormon movie adaptation would probably have a lot of people jumping up in their seats and praising Joseph Smith, but a feature-length adaptation of Trey Parker and Matt Stone's ...