The Book of Mormon Art Catalog is “the first permanent and comprehensive database” for these pieces, says curator Jennifer Champoux. “More than just a list of artworks, the catalog website ...

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Last year, the Community of Christ, which traces its roots to Smith, sold the printer’s manuscript of the first edition of the Book of Mormon to the Utah-based LDS Church for $35 million ...

The LDS church didn't mention the purchase price on its news website announcing the sale at MormonNewsroom.org. The Community of Christ announcement said the sale price of $35 million "was ...

The cover art, said Badger ... The contents of the plates would become the Book of Mormon, the LDS Church teaches. A statue of the Angel Moroni is featured on the spire of many LDS temples ...

20) by both the LDS church and the Community of Christ, the denomination that sold it. Both groups hold the Book of Mormon, which Joseph Smith claimed to have translated from a pair of golden ...

Upon its release in 2011, a Church statement was released stating, 'The production may attempt to entertain audiences for an evening, but the Book of Mormon as a volume of scripture will change ...

the phenomenal success of “The Book of Mormon” and the LDS Church’s splashing its own self-selected images in a recent national multimedia ad campaign: “I’m a Mormon.” NBC’s “Rock ...

Elder Nelson is a member of the “Quorum of the Twelve Apostles” in the LDS Church. Like Elder Nelson, I believe that the Book of Mormon can be the instrument for uniting the tribes of Israel.

The church says it's the very stone Smith, the founder of the LDS church, used to interpret the words that led to the Book of Mormon. "Scholars of Mormon history will enjoy reading this ...

WHO WROTE THE BOOK OF MORMON? For nearly two centuries, faithful members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) have claimed that Joseph Smith translated the text from the ...