depicting a 14-year-old Joseph Smith praying in the Sacred Grove, just before his First Vision. Jennifer Doyle made it by hand. "I was feeling like I needed to do something with my craft that was ...

Joseph Smith, top left, and some of his wives, later in life, clockwise from top middle: Emma Hale Smith; Eliza R. Snow; ...

Latter-day Saints might be surprised at how “Joseph Smith and the Mormons” starts. Not with the “First Vision,” in which a 14-year-old Smith reported that God and Jesus Christ appeared to ...

The recent discovery of a daguerreotype purported to be the only known photo of Joseph Smith opened up a conversation about what the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ...

Imagine if Joseph Smith belonged to the church in Corinth. Paul taught the Corinthian Christians how to discipline anyone in the church who was sexually immoral and unrepentant: "Expel the wicked man ...

The historian’s first impression was that the man staring at him from the 1844 metal daguerreotype was not Mormonism’s founder, Joseph Smith. To Lachlan Mackay, an apostle with the Community ...

After 22 years of documenting, filing, writing and editing, the historians and researchers behind The Joseph Smith Papers ... research — follows Smith, the first prophet-president of The Church ...

who was a granddaughter of Joseph Smith III, a son of Mormonism’s originator who helped establish what is now the Community of Christ and became its first president. Upon seeing the tiny image ...

The question of just how church founder Joseph Smith produced ... the traditional theory that Smith used “interpreters” called the urim and thummim, which the first Latter-day Saint prophet ...

On this week’s show, Mackay answers questions about the photo, the process historians used to authenticate it and why he’s convinced that it’s an image of Joseph Smith.