In October 1838, Missouri Governor Lilburn W. Boggs issued a chilling order declaring that Mormons “must be treated as ...

The Mormons arrived in Missouri hoping to build a Zion—only to face escalating hostility, political fear, and vigilante ...

(RNS) — While it’s a cheering thought that my religion has survived several hundred years in the imagination of ‘The Expanse,’ I’m not so enthusiastic about the way its Mormons seem stuck in the ...

Ever since the great American Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr. found inspiration in the book View of the Hebrews, published by Ethan Smith (no relation) in 1823, and after he claimed to use magical ...

An ex-Mormon-turned-YouTuber is sharing why so many members of her former church look alike. Alyssa Grenfell, 31, left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah to start a new life in ...

On the surface, Murder Among the Mormons, a three-part documentary series now on Netflix, is a perfect whodunnit. In 1985, a series of fatal bombings in Salt Lake City open up an investigative rabbit ...

Wagon train crossing the Platte River 1840s-1850s. Courtesy: Special Collections Dept., J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. They were a people who felt called by God, chosen to create a ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of America's fastest-growing religions and, relative to its size, one of the richest. Church membership, now at over 12 million and growing, ...

Last November, Jay Pimentel began hearing that people in his neighborhood were receiving letters about him. Pimentel lives in Alameda, Calif., a small, liberal-leaning community hanging off Oakland ...