Editor’s note: This commentary is part of an ongoing Deseret News series exploring ideas at the intersection of faith and thought. With spring now officially here, some Latter-day Saints have no doubt ...

Smith emerged not as a weathered leader but as a prophet increasingly defined by bolder claims, expanding authority, and ...

For Latter-day Saints across the globe, Thursday marks the 180th anniversary of a tragedy — on June 27, 1844, an armed mob stormed into Carthage Jail and took the lives of the prophet Joseph Smith and ...

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 ...

Somewhere along the six-hour horseback ride from Nauvoo to Carthage, Ill., where Joseph Smith was martyred in 1844, he shared with his small group of travel companions a foreboding that he would soon ...