A daguerreotype, right, discovered in a locket is believed by some to be Joseph Smith, the first president and prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Here it is compared to an ...

Community of Christ's first female prophet-president addresses a range of issues for this faith, which traces its roots back ...

(KUTV) For more than 150 years, artists have tried to portray what the founder of the Mormon church, Joseph Smith, really looked like.One Latter-day Saint artist believes he may have found the ...

(RNS) — On July 21, Mormons were rocked by news that a great-great-grandson of Joseph Smith had discovered a daguerreotype he believes to be the only known photograph of the prophet.. Almost ...

Peter Manseau's new book suggests that Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon may have been influenced by a Seneca religious prophet who died 200 years ago. Last week, Peter Manseau published a ...

Manchester, N.Y. • Christian Hancey is a lawyer, not an actor. But for the next week, the Pittsford, N.Y., father of four will don a wig and 1800s clothing to play Mormon founder Joseph Smith in ...

Godfrey shared that his experience with the Joseph Smith Papers has led him to get to know the Prophet better, as well as help both scholars and Latter-day Saints learn more about him as a person ...

A statue of the Mormon religion's founder and prophet Joseph Smith with his wife, Emma, at Temple Square in Salt Lake City. Mormon leaders have acknowledged for the first time that Smith ...

Many stories have emerged over the last 200 years of its origin and the man who discovered it, Joseph Smith. Smith was the first modern (Latter-day) prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter ...

27th Joseph Smith Papers print book documents the last six weeks of his life. “I am very much resigned to my lot,” he wrote just before he was slain at Carthage.

Mormon founder Joseph Smith was 14 years old when he said the God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to him in response to a prayer 200 years ago. Ever since, teenagers have played key roles in ...

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Nathan Mitchell portrayed the Prophet Joseph Smith in the church's 2005 movie, "Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration." ...