Joseph Smith, Jr.
Victim of crime, Author, and Spiritual Leader
How a seer stone helped in the Book of Mormon translation...it is considered private information; see Privacy policy. Last week we talked about the frontier treasure-digging environment in which Joseph Smith lived and how his own pre-prophet world view was shaped by that environment. As we've... In this article: Joseph Smith, God, and E mail |
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New York Magazine: Politics | 4 days ago
Celestial Marriage
...in the great apostasy that set in after the savior's crucifixion and was only corrected in the 1800s by the farm-boy seeker Joseph Smith, he'd turned aside and coughed into one hand. There was nowhere to wipe his soiled fingers,...
In this article: Massage, Europe, NATO, Caesar salad, Sputum, and Joseph Smith
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Deseret News | November 17, 2009
Jan Shipps discusses impact of religious research on LDS
...see Privacy policy. Religious historian Jan Shipps says if a prophet is defined as one who speaks for God, then Mormon founder Joseph Smith could have been one. He could also be everything else it's suggested he may have been,...
In this article: Jan Shipps, Methodist, E mail, God, Mormon, Sunstone Magazine, Joseph Smith, and Salt Lake City
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Spirit of prophets continues - Wayne Brickey on MormonTimes.com
God insists on doing his work through radiant, edifying people. They are in high demand, so he sometimes transfers them where they are needed most. So it was on Thursday, June 27, 1844. Joseph and Hyrum Smith ceased to radiate in this world.
In this article: MormonTimes.com, E mail, God, Hyrum Smith, and Joseph Smith
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The Salt Lake Tribune | November 14, 2009
Rolly: Eagle Forum may be behind urge to purge 'liberal' words from Legislature rules
...the conservative word "volunteer." What would Jesus do? » I wonder if the purging will include the passage in James 1:5, which inspired Joseph Smith to seek the truth by going to a grove and praying . That passage states: "If any of you...
In this article: Eagle Forum, Conservapedia, God, Utah Legislature, Hurricane High School, and Jesus
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Wayne Brickey: Joseph and Hyrum lived and died as true gentlemen
Your name and e-mail address are transmitted to the recipient. Otherwise, it is considered private information; see Privacy policy. Joseph and Hyrum Smith, priesthood officers to this dispensation, were gentlemen. That was a major...
In this article: Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith, and E mail
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Wizbang | November 07, 2009
The Balance Between Judgment and Hysteria
...today live exemplary lives of charity, tolerance and humility, and so have very little in common with the racist, xenophobic Joseph Smith. Many Scientologists are open-minded and just want to live by their creed, and so have almost...
In this article: Islam, Christianity, Prophet Mohammed, Fort Hood, United States, Buddhism, Anglican, and Allah
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'Zion' can be anywhere where there are Mormons
...the family to Princeton. Indeed, historian Jan Shipps argued that 19th century Mormon elites were either related to church founder Joseph Smith or to pioneers who trekked across the plains. After World War II, though, the pattern...
In this article: Mormon, Ned Hill, Armand Mauss, Utah, World War II, Utah Valley University, and Cornell
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Mormons off the hook in Brown's book
...foil. After all, antagonism between the two groups goes back a long way and often was contentious, even violent. church founder Joseph Smith and apostles Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball, became Masons and organized a Nauvoo Lodge...
In this article: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Dan Brown, Joseph Smith, God, Gordon B. Hinckley, Brigham Young, and Utah
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Just a few handshakes away from Joseph and Brigham
...is Nauvoo; by the end, it is Salt Lake Valley. Near the beginning of the play, word reaches a branch near Manchester, England, that Joseph and Hyrum Smith were killed. A recently released bishop, Ned Jarvis, was cast as the branch...
In this article: Joseph Smith, E mail, Hyrum Smith, Nauvoo, and England
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New LDS book shows Joseph Smith's early revelations
...understanding of revelation and of Joseph Smith. "One of the fascinating things ... is the way you see Joseph Smith, the farmer, and Joseph Smith, the seer, on the same pages," said Harper, associate professor of church history and...
In this article: Joseph Smith, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young University, God, Quorum of the Twelve, Seventy, and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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Joseph Smith, Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, also known as Mormonism, and an important religious and political figure during the 1830s and 1840s. In 1827, Smith began to gather a religious following after announcing that an angel had shown him a set of golden plates describing a visit of Jesus to the indigenous peoples of the Americas. In 1830, Smith published what he said was a translation of these plates as the Book of Mormon. The same year he organized a new church, which he called the Church of Christ.
For most of the 1830s, Smith lived in Kirtland, Ohio, which remained the headquarters of the church until the cost of building a large temple, financial collapse, and conflict with disaffected members encouraged him to gather the church to the Latter Day Saint settlement in Missouri. There, tensions between church members and non-Mormons escalated into the 1838 Mormon War. Smith and his followers then settled in Nauvoo, Illinois where they began building a second temple aided by new converts from Europe. After being accused of practicing polygamy and of aspiring to create a theocracy, Smith took part in the decision of the Nauvoo City Council to suppress a newspaper that had published accusations against him, leading to his assassination by a mob of non-Mormons.
Joseph Smith's legacy includes several religious denominations with adherents numbering in the millions, denominations that share a belief in Jesus but that vary in their acceptance of each other and of traditional Christianity. Smith's followers consider him a prophet and believe that some of his revelations are sacred texts on par with the Bible.
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