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. But a high ...

In fact, it travels back to the earliest day, the moment that gave birth to the Mormon movement. Latter-day Saints know it as the “First Vision,” in which church founder Joseph Smith said he ...

In response to his prayer, Joseph Smith received what is referred to as the First Vision. After describing ... led to the translation of the Book of Mormon and the establishment of The Church ...

The plates of the Book of Mormon were translated in a sense ... But I think the most important thing that came out of the First Vision of Joseph Smith was not his claim that Christianity had ...

Joseph Smith Jr. was struggling ... This experience, known as the First Vision by Smith's followers, ultimately gave the world a new faith: Mormonism, or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter ...

Two hundred years ago this spring — so the story is told — a 14-year-old boy named Joseph ... among LDS church members of the 200th anniversary of Smith’s “First Vision,” as it’s ...

The founder and first prophet of Mormonism authored the three Mormon books. Joseph Smith (1805-1844) claimed he received golden plates from an angel named Moroniin 1827 containing information that ...

The history of Joseph ... from God, first through an angel, and then through a book inscribed on golden plates. Smith translated the writing on the plates into the Book of Mormon, which tells ...

But the first Mormon to seek the White House was also the first Mormon -- Joseph Smith Jr., the founder of the Mormon Church, whose 1844 presidential campaign is historically notable not only ...

(RNS) — In 2000 and 2001, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints focused its worldwide curriculum on the teachings of Joseph F. Smith (1838 ... to beating his first wife, Levira ...

The papers provide a first-ever look at Joseph Smith's seer stone. The church says it's the very stone Smith, the founder of the LDS church, used to interpret the words that led to the Book of Mormon.