In the latest LDS Church news, the faith announces dozens of changes to the Doctrine Covenants, thanks largely to new scholarship from the Joseph Smith Papers project.

According to the press release, “Documents Volume 15” relates the final chapter of the Prophet Joseph Smith's life. Scholars within the Church and outside of it have lauded the series for the ...

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The project team for the Joseph Smith Papers is set to release the final volume of the papers on June 27, the 179th anniversary of the Prophet’s martyrdom. The Joseph Smith Papers project is a ...

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 ...

After 22 years of documenting, filing, writing and editing, the historians and researchers behind The Joseph Smith Papers published the final volume of their groundbreaking project Tuesday on the ...

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SALT LAKE CITY -- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released never-before-seen images of the "seer stone" used by Joseph Smith to translate the Book of Mormon from golden plates. The ...

"We hope the contextual additions help readers better understand why and how the Lord communicated with the church through his prophet," says church historian and General Authority Seventy Elder Kyle ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (August 4, 2015)– The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released never-before-seen images of the “seer stone” used by Joseph Smith to translate the Book of Mormon from ...

The 2003 "South Park" depiction of the Book of Mormon's translation process turns out to be more accurate than sanitized LDS images of Joseph Smith poring over the golden plates. What will be the ...

SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – The Mormon Church released photographs on Tuesday (August 3) of a so-called “seer stone” that members believe was used by the Utah-based faith’s founder, Joseph Smith, to ...