The Mormon OdysseyA young man's vision gave rise to the Mormon Church. Joseph Smith founded a booming faith that's confronting its past as it looks to the future.Family Matters: A Mormon couple poses outside the Salt Lake City templeClick
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Second Article on President Gordon B. Hinckley, Prophet and President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
ExcerptThis experience, known as the First Vision by Smith's followers, ultimately gave the world a new faith: Mormonism, or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which now has more than 12 million members and, thanks to the vigorous missionary tradition started by Smith himself, is one of the fastest-growing Christian denominations in the United States.
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Just wanted to share this article for those of you who have yet to see / read it. Let's not turn this into a "Mormon Bashing" thread please. Keep that in my other thread; it would be much appreciated!