If two Latter-day Saint researchers have their way, it would be so long to “seer stone in a hat” and hello to “Urim and Thummim.” They would also like to drop-kick the inclusion of folk magic out of ...

The question of just how church founder Joseph Smith produced the faith’s signature scripture, the Book of Mormon, continues to be debated. Did Smith “translate” the Reformed Egyptian writing from ...

Was Joseph Smith a true prophet or a religious pretender? Vogel, who edited the five-volume series Early Mormon Documents, attempts to answer this and other questions in this somewhat tedious, ...

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 ...