T he relationship between Blacks in Mormonism is a deeply complex and evolving one. For much of the church’s history, this topic has been marked by both exclusion and eventual change ...

Writer and scholar Jonathan Rauch says the LDS Church may have found the answer to balancing cultural war issues with ...

A New History of Mormonism,” in a Zoom interview with Religion News Service. Emma Smith, the prophet’s first wife, “was agitating for change and a space within the community within months of ...

Courtesy: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. April: The Mormon pioneer company led by Young leave their winter quarters in western Iowa and head west.

Suspicion. Rebellion. Murder. The Netflix show American Primeval depicts how tensions between Mormon pioneers in Utah and the ...

It’s one of the most harrowing scenes in Netflix’s grim Western. But is its depiction of the Mountain Meadows atrocities ...

Joseph Smith is one of the most fulsome characters in 19th-century American history: a visionary, an organizer, a schemer, a mover of people, an inventor of a religion that brought polygamy to ...

Our day of LDS history begins and ends with music. The film’s soundtrack is provided by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and pursues an inexorable crescendo as thousands across the Pacific fill the ...