The Doyle family home in Provo features a unique centerpiece on the dining room wall: a large hooked rug, depicting a 14-year-old Joseph Smith praying in the Sacred Grove, just before his First ...

Joseph Smith’s “First Vision,” as it is known to the 16.3 million members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is the basis of books and essays, podcasts and popular speeches ...

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 ...

Discussing the “First Vision,” which gave rise to a world religion of more than 16 million members, and the various accounts Smith and others gave of the experience are Matt Grow, managing ...

Joseph Smith offered various versions of his “First Vision,” and artists have drawn, painted and sculpted even more depictions of the church founder’s reported encounter with deity.

Joseph Smith Jr. said the he had his First Vision of Christ in the woods of Palmyra, New York, in 1820. More visions led to the Book of Mormon and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Some scholars believe 14-year-old Joseph Smith, founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, experienced his First Vision 200 years ago this week — on March 26, 1820.

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For years, critics have pointed to the differing accounts of Joseph Smith's so-called "First Vision" as proof that the Mormon founder made up his boyhood encounter with the divine.

Latest from LDS General Conference: Church to celebrate ‘bicentennial’ of founder Joseph Smith’s ‘First Vision’ During his closing remarks for this General Conference, President Russell ...

According to the testimony of Joseph Smith's younger brother William, Joseph, at age 14, had heard Rev. George Lane preach a sermon on "what church shall I join" and quoted from the New Testament ...

The story Smith told of his first, astonishing vision and the visions/revelations that came after became the anchors for the Mormon faith and what devout Mormons believe happened. Jon Butler Jon ...