The founder of the Mormon Church rocked 19th-century America with his spiritual visions, his belief in polygamy—and even a ...

(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.

On this week's "Mormon Land" podcast, Latter-day Saint scholars discuss church founder Joseph Smith's polygamy and those who increasingly deny he ever participated in the practice.

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 ...