Of all the Mormon doctrines, none caused as much controversy as polygamy, called plural or celestial marriage within the church. It divided prophet Joseph Smith's own household, caused a schism ...

Candidly explaining Mormonism’s complicated experience with polygamy to adults requires nuance, context and care. Introducing it to children can be even trickier, if not nearly impossible.

Such was the temper of the Mormon Bismarck. But the main cohesive force is polygamy. Here is once more the philosophy of Benjamin Franklin's " We must all hang together, or we shall all hang ...

The curriculum uses church founder Joseph Smith’s decision to practice polygamy as an object lesson that we should all have “faith to obey a law from the Lord, even when it’s hard.” ...

They argued that only a Smith descendant could hold the keys to Mormon leadership, and they vehemently denied that the prophet had ever practiced polygamy. The sect eventually added “Reorganized ...

Christine Brown is writing a book detailing her life on TLC's 'Sister Wives,' her polygamy experience, and Kody Brown. What ...

The Mormons have condemned plural marriage ever ... One of them told TIME: “We believe as a people that polygamy is a divine institution. People live this way in heaven . . . Woodruff’s ...

Joseph Smith is one of the most fulsome characters in 19th-century American history: a visionary, an organizer, a schemer, a mover of people, an inventor of a religion that brought polygamy to ...

Composer Nico Muhly and his librettist Stephen Karam found the material for their open Dark Sisters, which was first performed in 2016, in stories about a fundamentalist breakaway sect of the Mormon ...

"The major American experiment with multiple wives in one marriage, occurred, after all, in the 19th century with the early Mormon Church," he points out. A discussion of polygamy, then ...

The curriculum uses Joseph Smith’s decision to practice polygamy as an object lesson that we should all have “faith to obey a law from the Lord, even when it’s hard.” While it may be a ...