Joseph Smith

While not updated recently, MormonThink is a fantastically comprehensive repository of information examining many sticky issues in and around Mormonism including problems with The Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith, history, polygamy, race, and many other issues.   MormonThink is concerned with truth.  It is neither an anti-Mormon website nor an LDS apologist website.  Instead, for each topic, we present the Read more...

Great post on r/Mormon about the claim that Joseph couldn’t have written the BoM by himself…     Could Joseph have written the BoM? Unambiguously, yes. Apologists, namely Nibley source and Hales source often argue that the Book of Mormon MUST be authentic revelation because divine help would have been necessary to produce the book in an unhumanly speedy timeframe. Their argument follows the Read more...

This website doesn’t have the greatest user interface – but the information is incredible. Highly recommend you use the search box to find info on any topic.   2,001+ Easy Reasons to Dismiss Mormonism Compare the coalesced and unedited Original and Printer’s Manuscripts side-by-side to the Current Edition. Explore the coalesced and unedited Original and Printer’s Manuscripts. Due to sparse punctuation, and to aid the reader, the text Read more...

An epic 6-part series where the (very) irreverent Last Podcast on the Left show skewers Mormon history.   Listen to this episode from Last Podcast On The Left on Spotify. On this, the first part of our gigantic series on Mormonism, we cover the early life of its founder, Joseph Smith, including his early career as a grave robber and Read more...

This website deals with Joseph Smith’s practice of polygamy from his initial curiosity in the early 1830s to his 1840s sealings to plural wives and his teachings of the principle as a commandment.   It is the first online site completely dedicated to presenting this topic to a mainstream LDS audience, written from a faithful perspective. History, esoteric theology, and controversies are all Read more...

The documents uploaded here are those used to write Joseph Smith’s Polygamy: History and Theology (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2013). The documents found here are of three types. A substantial amount of overlap can be found between the first two sets of documents.  These redundancies can be readily identified in the Master Index. (1) The first set of uploads are Read more...

Podcast series produced by the LDS Church telling its own history accompanies the book series. While many complicated issues are addressed for the first time in this sort of accessible format, critics will note that the narratives are very apologist in nature, white-washed, and the podcast hosts gaslight audience members who aren’t aware of issues like the extent of Joseph’s Read more...

Remembering the Wives of Joseph Smith Short biographies of all of Joseph’s wives. Acknowledge and remember these largely forgotten women Read more...