SALT LAKE CITY — Mormon critics reacting to the release of photos of Mormon founder Joseph Smith’s chocolate-colored “seer stone,” see it as another reason to view the Mormon prophet as a ...

The question of just how church founder Joseph Smith produced ... of Latter-day Saints seems to be that Smith produced most of the text using a “seer stone” in a hat, where words somehow ...

"As a young man during the 1820s, Joseph Smith, like others in his day, used a seer stone to look for lost objects and buried treasure," the essay said. "As Joseph grew to understand his prophetic ...

If two Latter-day Saint researchers have their way, it would be so long to “seer stone in a hat” and hello to “Urim and Thummim.” They would also like to drop-kick the inclusion of folk ...

“Their argument is, you all have your beliefs and keep them, and we respect that, but don’t join us in without telling us key ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon church for the first time is publishing photos of a small sacred stone it believes founder Joseph Smith used to help translate the story that became the basis of the ...

(KUTV) As part of an ongoing effort to demystify some of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' history, officials today released rare images of Joseph Smith's seer stone, said to help ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (August 4, 2015)– The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released never-before-seen images of the “seer stone” used by Joseph Smith to translate the Book of ...

of a so-called “seer stone” that members believe was used by the Utah-based faith’s founder, Joseph Smith, to write the Book of Mormon, its principal sacred text. Photos of the egg-shaped ...

The photos also show a weathered leather pouch where the stone was stored that is believed to be made by one of Joseph Smith's wives, Emma Smith. The church has always possessed the stone ...