From the first years of its existence, the Mormon Church sparked violent opposition from other Americans. This violence ...

Until the late 20th century, most members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints did not realize that founder Joseph Smith had practiced polygamy himself. After all, the Utah-based faith ...

SALT LAKE CITY – A new historical narrative posted by the Mormon church on its website officially acknowledges that some plural marriages were performed after an 1890 ban and that polygamy was widely ...

Mormon settlers began a westward exodus, escaping persecution, in the 1830s. When they arrived in the valley of the Great ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Mormon church founder Joseph Smith had a teenage bride and was married to other men's wives during the early days of the faith when polygamy was practiced, a new church essay ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Richard Turley talked about Wilford Woodruff, the fourth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and his 1890 manifesto.

(RNS) — In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a religion built on modern revelation, perhaps no revelation has caused as much controversy as one attributed to President John Taylor, who ...

(RNS) — Carol Lynn Pearson writes, ‘Children will be indoctrinated with the understanding that if a ‘man of authority’ tells us God wants us to do something we believe is wrong, we are to do it anyway ...

“Historians like to say, ‘No source, no history,’” Laurel Thatcher Ulrich writes in her new book, “A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870.” Until not ...

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