The Free Library of Philadelphia is opening a new exhibit in honor of the Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temple. Called An American-born Faith: Writings from the First Century of Mormonism, the exhibit will include an 1855 Book of Mormon written in Hawaiian, early copies of the Book of Mormon, and a phonetic alphabet, or "Mormon alphabet," written for non-English speaking converts.

LDS missionaries often return to their missions to visit converts, wards and families. But few return to visit tens of thousands of screaming fans.

A Washington, D.C.-based organization has asked the University of Utah to stop the school’s football coaches from teaching an optional LDS religion class for players.

Two weeks after returning from his mission, Cliff Devries received life-changing news—a 6-inch tumor was growing near his brain.

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell apologized Wednesday night for inaccurate comments he made a week earlier about the origins of the Mormon church. “I am truly sorry if I said something inaccurate about Joseph Smith, and I am happy to provide time on this show to a Church of Latter Day Saints spokesman to correct any inaccuracy,” he said on The Last Word, before adding “I just wish I could take those words back.” The words in question were spoken on April 3, in the middle of a monologue about Mitt Romney’s claim that President Barack Obama was trying to “establish a religion in America known as secularism.” O’Donnell brought up the Mormon religion’s origins to make the point that Romney, while attacking the beliefs of Obama, was vulnerable on the same score. “Religiously, Mitt Romney lives in the glass house of American politics,” he said. O’Donnell also said the following:

With over 2,000 parts that rotate and interlock not to mention no plans save only pictures, a WWII Enigma machine would be nearly impossible to reproduce—unless you are Latter-day Saint Reid Haroldsen. The machine has already gained some notoriety and will appear at the American Computer and Robotics Museum. It even caught the attention of Sir Dermot Turing.

One month after the outbreak of World War I, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson asked Americans of all faiths to join in prayer, seeking the blessing of peace for Europe and the world. In Salt Lake City, perhaps as many as 10,000 Latter-day Saints gathered in the Tabernacle on Temple Square during General Conference and joined in prayer.

The first-look trailer for the upcoming movie Jane and Emma is making waves, and Deadline is taking notice.

Well, there’s no clear answer to this, but gradually, and over time, we see that this has come to be. We largely put academic and spiritual learning in two separate boxes. Rarely are academics viewed as tools to deepen faith and develop character. And rarely is faith viewed as a vital part of academics.

The history of the Mormons is neither long nor complicated. Founded in 1830 by Joseph Smith in western New York, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints abandoned the settled United States after Smith’s assassination in Illinois in 1844, establishing their new Zion in the Utah Territory. The refractory, polygamist Mormons spent most of the 19th century warring with American power; then most of the 20th trying to assimilate into mainstream America.