In his new book, “Joseph Smith’s Gold Plates: A Cultural History,” historian Richard Bushman calls the Book of Mormon, the signature scripture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...

Latter-day Saints might be surprised at how “Joseph ... as Smith dictates his personal history, available on the church’s website. They come across stories of angels and gold plates and ...

But the year was 1844, the state was Illinois, the parties were the Whigs and the Democrats, and the candidate was Joseph ... retrieve the plates buried in Hill Cumorah. By then, Smith had married ...

In a reply has been shared and liked thousands of times, Rowling wrote back: “It’s like when Joseph Smith found the golden plates and nobody else was allowed to look at them.” It's like when ...

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The question of just how church founder Joseph Smith produced ... continues to be debated. Did Smith “translate” the Reformed Egyptian writing from gold plates or did he invent the story ...

After the fiasco of the lost 116 pages, Smith relied on the seer stone to the exclusion of the Urim and Thummin, “with the plates apparently covered and laid aside as he worked,” as Terryl ...

For more than 190 years, critics of Mormon founder Joseph ... gold plates containing text written in “reformed Egyptian” — a language no scholar knows — that only Smith could translate.

Four years later Smith removed the plates, and spent 3 months translating the words engraved on them into the Book of Mormon. Before Joseph could fulfil the task of restoring the Church it was ...

Smith and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were in Illinois due to religious persecution and violence they had experienced. The martyrdom of both Joseph and Hyrum Smith ...