(RNS) — ‘I think the evidence for Joseph’s polygamous sealings is pretty overwhelming,’ says historian John Turner, who has penned a new biography of Joseph Smith.

Recently we’ve seen a rise in what some scholars are calling “polygamy denial,” with some Latter-day Saints now claiming Joseph Smith never practiced polygamy, or at least not sexual polygamy.

Jana Riess: Yes, LDS founder Joseph Smith practiced polygamy “The evidence for Joseph’s polygamous sealings is pretty overwhelming,” says historian John Turner, who has penned a new ...

On this week's "Mormon Land" podcast, Latter-day Saint scholars discuss church founder Joseph Smith's polygamy and those who increasingly deny he ever participated in the practice.

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 ...

On this week's "Mormon Land" podcast, Latter-day Saint scholars discuss church founder Joseph Smith's polygamy and those who increasingly deny he ever participated in the practice.

Utah Polygamy Denounced Before Mormon Conference at Kirtland. THE PROPHET'S SON SPEAKS; JOSEPH SMITH, JR., DENOUNCES POLYGAMY. A REMARKABLE SERMON IN THE FAMOUS OLD TEMPLE AT KIRTLAND--MORMONS ON ...

But the real reason people find the cartoon so troublesome “is the message,” Park says. “Any attempt to explain Joseph Smith’s practice of polygamy, especially to children, ...

The LDS Church has revised illustrations explaining polygamy to kids, eliminating some cartoons and changing the message from "obedience" to "a rare exception" to the teaching of monogamy.