A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting in Denver, heard arguments Monday and asked probing questions about a 2019 case brought on behalf of three former Latter-day ...

This 2001 “Ensign” cover shows Joseph Smith translating the Book of Mormon by poring over the plates — which is how many faithful Latter-day Saints have been instructed to imagine the process.

SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released never-before-seen images of the “seer stone” used by Joseph Smith to translate the Book of Mormon from golden plates.

Joseph claimed that he “translated” the Book of Mormon from secret sources, but Turner again opts for “the simplest conclusion,” that Smith wrote it himself. Some Mormon historians have ...

How did Joseph Smith translate the Book of Mormon and other scriptures? Scholars are offering some new, more expansive possibilities of what we mean by translation.

Smith had received a revelation from God, first through an angel, and then through a book inscribed on golden plates. Smith translated the writing on the plates into the Book of Mormon , which ...

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 ...

Smith translated the writing on the plates into the Book of Mormon, which tells the story of the ancient people of America. It was published in 1830. The Church ...

In March I was privileged to be part of a conference at USU on “New Perspectives on Joseph Smith and Translation,” taking on some of the latest scholarship on Smith’s role in translating the ...