Born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont, to Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph Smith Jr. grew up on a series of tenant farms in Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York. Though in his youth ...

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 ...

From the early days of the Restoration, Church leaders have championed the fundamental human right to religious freedom ...

Decades ago, the Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it will weigh the use of intelligence tests in death penalty cases.

(RNS) — ‘I think the evidence for Joseph’s polygamous sealings is pretty overwhelming,’ says historian John Turner, who has penned a new biography of Joseph Smith.

The Joseph Smith Memorial Building reopened to the public after a two-and-a-half-year renovation project.The building, ...

‘Mormon Land’: Was Joseph Smith a prophet or a scoundrel? New biography shows bits of both. Historian John Turner captures a religious icon who was always on the move, who dangerously pursued ...

Jeremy Lee Holland, 50, of St. Joseph, died May 23, 2025. Prayer service May 29 at Heaton-Bowman-Smith & Sidenfaden Chapel, in St. Joseph, starting at 1 p.m. Visitation one hour prior to the ...

Members of the Lincoln County community gathered Monday night to pray for the Smith family after a deadly wreck on I-75 near Chattanooga on Mother's Day.

Monday night, members of the Lincoln County community gathered together to pray for the Smith family after a deadly wreck on I-75 near Chattanooga on Mother's Day.