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George Joseph borrowed a gun from a friend after telling him Keith Monia had been making threatening phone calls, according to testimony Tuesday, the second day of Joseph's trial on charges he ...

A prophecy of war, God’s first name, fierce chastisements and the blessings of polygamy — these are the contents of the more than 40 uncanonized revelations of Joseph Smith that two historians scraped ...

Perhaps a true-to-life biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, can never be written. Smith’s claims to accessing the divine were too outlandish, his embrace of polygamy too ...