If two Latter-day Saint researchers have their way, it would be so long to “seer stone in a hat” and hello to “Urim and Thummim.” They would also like to drop-kick the inclusion of folk magic out of ...

Latter-day Saint historian Dean Jessee was a ‘humble, dedicated disciple of Christ,’ his longtime colleague Ronald Esplin ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has commissioned a new official biography of its 19th-century charismatic founder, to be titled simply: “Joseph the Prophet.” The new volume about ...

The Joseph Smith Papers project has been called the "lunar mission" of Mormon historical research. The Latter-day Saint ...

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 ...

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