Joseph Smith Jr. was born Dec. 23, 1805 — 218 years ago. And he was killed by an armed mob 39 years later, on June 27, 1844. The anniversary of his birth today may be lost in preparing for Christmas — ...
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, ...
Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet, by John G. Turner (Yale, $35) Born in 1805 to a hardscrabble Vermont family and raised amid the fervor of the Second Great Awakening, Joseph ...
Smith was not on the national ballot, nor was he endorsed by either major political party at the time, the Whigs or the Democrats. A 2008 congressional report recording "Direct Assaults Against ...
(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. (RNS) — When John Turner’s biography ...
Even if you’re not a Christian, I doubt I need to introduce you to the Apostle Paul, the guy who wrote most of the New ...