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‘Mormon Land’: Did Joseph Smith practice polygamy? What the evidence shows and why it matters.

In 2014, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints published an official essay detailing Joseph Smith’s marriages to multiple women. After decades of insisting otherwise, the Community of Christ ...
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‘Joseph Smith’ is a clear-eyed biography of the Mormon founder

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 ...
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The ‘most important LDS theologian of the 20th century’ and his anti-evolution fight over ‘pre-Adamites’

Joseph Fielding Smith’s family tree alone makes him a significant player in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His father, Joseph F. Smith, was the faith’s sixth president ...