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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

1974: The Book of Mormon Pavilion, built on pilings in the Spokane River, was one of two religious pavilions at Expo ’74. The Great Northern Clocktower, right, and the U.S. Pavilion, behind, are ...