WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — A former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was featured in an Associated Press investigation into how the church protects itself from allegations of ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — A former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was featured in an Associated Press investigation into how the church protects itself from allegations of ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In 1999, John Goodrich, an Idaho dentist who was also a bishop with the Mormon church ...

In 2014, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints published an official essay detailing Joseph Smith’s marriages to multiple women. After decades of insisting otherwise, the Community of Christ ...

WILLIAMSBURG — Williamsburg’s top prosecutor said Thursday that felony charges against a former Mormon bishop stem from allegations that he sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl during a field trip to ...

A former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was featured in an Associated Press investigation into how the church protects itself from allegations of sexual abuse was ...

In 2012, scholar John Turner published an award-winning biography of Brigham Young, a mountain of a man in Western Americana. But there remained a bigger fish to pursue, namely Joseph Smith, the ...

Perhaps a true-to-life biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, can never be written. Smith’s claims to accessing the divine were too outlandish, his embrace of polygamy too ...

A Utah lawmaker and prominent attorney for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints advised a church bishop not to report a confession of child sex abuse to authorities, a decision that allowed ...

A Harrisburg attorney facing child rape charges in Berks County Court has been disbarred by the state. Shawn C. Gooden, who was also a Boy Scout leader and former bishop with the Mormon church, ...