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

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 ...

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.

In the latest LDS news, suggestions for penalizing colleges if vulgar anti-Latter-day Saint chants break out at BYU games; ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Mormon Land newsletter is The Salt Lake Tribune ... traces the church’s relationship with various tax systems from founder Joseph Smith’s early life until well into the 21st century.