Since its inception in September 1827, many have asked the question: “What is the Book of Mormon?” Some of you may know the answer. Many stories have emerged over the last 200 years of its origin and ...

Two researchers renew the debate about whether the church founder relied on a “seer stone” or the “Urim and Thummim.” Either way, this was no ordinary translation.

From its headquarters in Salt Lake City, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints claims more than sixteen million adherents around the world. For most people outside the faith, the little they ...

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 ...