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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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Who was Joseph Smith?

“Joseph [Smith] is a man of God, a prophet of the Lord set apart to lead the people — If we observe his words it will be well with us; if we live righteously on earth, it will be well with us in ...