Joseph F. Smith, nephew of the founding prophet, and his family. Courtesy: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Of all the Mormon doctrines, none caused as much ...

Dora” Lovina Young Dunford Hagan loved her father, Brigham Young, the Mormon Moses, but she ultimately rejected polygamy and ...

In the last few weeks the LDS Church has issued a series of groundbreaking statements about controversial issues in its own history, including the racist priesthood ban and controversies over Joseph ...

The arrest of polygamist leader Lyle Jeffs, evictions of polygamist families and new studies on crippling genetic disorders among small ultra-orthodox or “fundamentalist” Mormon communities in rural ...

Brigham Young publicly acknowledged what Mormons call "plural marriage" after the church became established in Utah in 1852. But an article posted last month on LDS.org, the official website of the ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A new historical narrative posted by the Mormon church on its website officially acknowledges that some plural marriages were performed following an 1890 ban and that polygamy ...

One of the biggest hurdles for some Latter-day Saints to clear in sealing and stabilizing and solidifying their faith in their church, in the doctrines of The Church ...

Two brothers of imprisoned Utah polygamist Warren Jeffs and nine other members of a breakaway sect of the Mormon Church were charged on Tuesday with diverting money from a government food assistance ...

The church’s identity with polygamy is partly sustained by fundamentalist sects, whose multiple marriages are defended as God’s law. The most formalized group, founded in 1935, is the Fundamentalist ...

(RNS) — The unknowns about eternal polygamy are ‘answered with speculation and myths, creating undue fear and angst,’ says the author of a new book. (RNS) — Ten years ago, as I finished up teaching a ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The Mormon church's renovated history museum set to reopen this week features a small and surprising display about an uncomfortable part of the faith's history that for generations ...

This video explores how polygamy appeared in medieval Europe despite official religious bans. Laws and doctrine said one ...