Mormon beliefs that “Joseph Smith received golden plates from an angel on a hill” were “weird,” he protested, only because “everyone knows that Moses got stone tablets from a burning ...

Richard • The Book of Mormon never calls them gold and Joseph Smith didn’t speak much of gold plates. It’s the outsiders who are fascinated that they’re gold.

The label “Golden Bible” says it all: golden denotes the culture’s formula for getting rich with little work, while Bible denotes things everlasting. Third, Bushman emphasizes Smith’s uniqueness as ...

So Allred started adapting the Book of Mormon into a multi-part graphic novel. In 2004 and 2005 he self-published The Golden Plates , an action/gospel-packed story starring Nephi, Omni, Jacob, and ...

On this special live episode of "Mormon Land," we talk with Latter-day Saint scholars Richard and Claudia Bushman about the Book of Mormon, Joseph and Emma Smith, the gold plates, women's rights ...

Well, the Book of Mormon is a migration story, similar to the idea of the Book of Exodus in the Old Testament, except there are three migrations involved in this: an early one [involving a people ...

Mormonism's founder, the self-declared prophet Joseph Smith, claimed to have translated a new work of scripture (the Book of Mormon) from text written on golden plates he found buried in the ground.

He transcribed what was on the golden plates, the text of which became the Book of Mormon. That’s the text that essentially rewrote Judeo-Christian history to include North America while also ...

The musical that has had theatregoers buzzing since its premiere, The Book of Mormon, has finally made its way to Madison. It's a show so full of lewd behavior that one would almost have to assume ...

Wheeler also said Moroni was a real person, an ancient prophet in the Book of Mormon. “In 1823, Moroni revealed to Joseph Smith the location of a record engraved on gold plates that gave the ...