ESPN edited an article on its website about Brigham Young University after it sparked backlash for “ill-advised jokes” about Joseph Smith, the founding prophet of the Mormon religion. The article ...

In his new book, “Joseph Smith’s Gold Plates: A Cultural History,” historian Richard Bushman calls the Book of Mormon, the signature scripture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a ...

As a couple, Richard and Claudia Bushman are among the most prominent, productive and popular Latter-day Saint scholars. To celebrate more than 300 episodes of The Salt Lake Tribune’s “Mormon Land” ...

Russell M. Nelson pushed the church away from members’ longtime nickname, ‘Mormons’ – a term that has shaped other Americans’ view of the church for 200 years.