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“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling has alienated herself from some Latter-day Saint fans after raising doubts about the faith's founder Joseph Smith on Twitter.
Here are six actors who portrayed Joseph Smith on film, with commentary from Griffiths about how they fared. (20th Century Fox) Vincent Price, portraying Joseph Smith in the 1940 Western epic ...
Perhaps a true-to-life biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, can never be written. Smith’s claims to accessing the divine were too outlandish, his embrace of polygamy too ...
Seeing is believing, so the saying goes, and that was instantly true for some viewers of the recently discovered daguerreotype purporting to be Mormonism’s founder, Joseph Smith. “My immediate ...
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been obsessed with Joseph Smith’s appearance since he died on June 27, 1844. The morning after Joseph, along with his brother ...
Scholar Todd Compton explores what historical documents say about the 33 wives of Mormonism's founder Joseph Smith, whether they had sex with the LDS prophet, and if there is evidence of children.
On July 21, Mormons were rocked by news that a great-great-grandson of Joseph Smith had discovered a daguerreotype he believes to be the only known photograph of the prophet. Almost immediately ...