"For Latter-day Saints, some of the really sacred things about the Kirtland Temple happened on that top floor, where Joseph Smith sees a vision of the afterlife and sees his brother, Alvin ...

Stassi D. Cramm was ordained the prophet-president of Community of Christ (formerly known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus ...

Ownership of the Kirtland Temple became an issue almost from the start. The title was broken more than once in the 1830s, Spencer McBride said in a Joseph Smith Papers Project podcast.

“It’s a place where [Joseph Smith] received the vast majority of the revelations that are in the Doctrine and Covenants. The Kirtland Temple has been a special place because the church had to ...

KIRTLAND, Ohio, April 10.--Joseph Smith, Jr., the son of the celebrated Mormon prophet, gave polygamy a black eye to-day. He said he had been reviled and slandered at the great Mormon conference ...

The Reorganized Church — which became the Community of Christ in 2001 — obtained the Kirtland Temple through Joseph Smith’s son. Joseph Smith III bought the temple through a quit-claim deed ...

The 59th annual conference will take place in Kirtland, Ohio, the former headquarters of early followers of church founder Joseph Smith ... I think about” the temple changing hands.