On this special live episode of "Mormon Land," we talk with Latter-day Saint scholars Richard and Claudia Bushman about the Book of Mormon, Joseph and Emma Smith, the gold plates, women's rights ...

Richard • The Book of Mormon never calls them gold and Joseph Smith didn’t speak much of gold plates. It’s the outsiders who are fascinated that they’re gold.

The label “Golden Bible” says it all: golden denotes the culture’s formula for getting rich with little work, while Bible denotes things everlasting. Third, Bushman emphasizes Smith’s uniqueness as ...

What is interesting is that the Gold plates had been found and received by Joseph Smith near the Whitmer homestead. Following the LDS Church organization of April 1830, John Whitmer continued to ...

The stone is believed to be one of many items Joseph Smith used when he translated golden plates into the Book of Mormon. The LDS Church has always possessed the object, LDS Church Historian Elder ...

The musical that has had theatregoers buzzing since its premiere, The Book of Mormon, has finally made its way to Madison. It's a show so full of lewd behavior that one would almost have to assume ...

Book of Mormon signature page to hidden Gold Plates transcription destroyed by 1800's river flooding causes new document discovery to be only Gold Plates link The pen is mightier than the sword” ...

Not long before Joseph Smith was murdered at the Carthage, Ill. jailhouse while awaiting trial in 1844, he had hid the original Harmony PA. executed original Gold plates transcription manuscript ...

John Whitmer 6 May 1877 Book of Mormon manuscript letter testimony found on page 39 of Joseph R. Lambert "Scrap-book" journal. John Whitmer 6 May 1877 testimony alongside excerpted quotes taken ...