Joseph Smith

Perpetual outsiders, Mormons spent 200 years assimilating to a certain national ideal—only to find their country in an identity crisis. What will the third century of the faith look like?

At the end of the smash Broadway musical, The Book of Mormon, the protagonist, Elder Price, a zealous young Mormon missionary in Uganda, triumphantly sings, “We are still Latter day Saints, all of us / Even if we change some things, or we break the r

A historian looks at the legacy of racism in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

SHELLEY, Idaho - It was January when David Gillmore went to Home Depot for face masks before logging onto Amazon, where he bought a plastic sign that read, "DANGER: KEEP OUT QUARANTINE." There were no confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the U.S. at