The church goes so far as to say: “Joseph Smith’s first vision stands today as the greatest event in world history since the ...

Joseph Smith’s “First Vision,” as it is known to the 16.3 million members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is the basis of books and essays, podcasts and popular speeches ...

The First Vision Spring 1820 According to the testimony of Joseph Smith's younger brother William, Joseph, at age 14, had heard Rev. George Lane preach a sermon on "what church shall I join" and ...

Foundational to the church and to my own testimony of Mormonism is the story of the First Vision of Joseph Smith. It's a story that comes out of a very concrete, historical family situation. You ...

Just as John had prophesied, an angel directed Joseph Smith to the sacred record inscribed on gold plates and buried in a stone vault. The young prophet, at age 23, completed the marvelous ...

During Tuesday?s Devotional, President Hinckley dedicated and consecrated the new Joseph F. Smith Building as a place for teaching and learning where God?s work could be fulfilled. Speaking to a ...

Mormon founder Joseph Smith was 14 years old when he said the God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to him in response to a prayer 200 years ago. Ever since, teenagers have played key roles in ...

A daguerreotype, right, discovered in a locket is believed by some to be Joseph Smith, the first president and prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Here it is compared to an ...

Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet John G. Turner. Yale Univ, $35 (464p) ISBN 978-0-300-25516-4 ...