The slaying in Mexico of nine people who belonged to a Mormon offshoot community where some people practice polygamy spotlights the mainstream church's struggle to distance itself from plural marriage ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. What was it like to be a Mormon woman in a polygamist marriage in 19th-century America? That's what historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich explores in her new book "A ...

8: The Mormon Proposition, a documentary polemic detailing the involvement of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in support of California’s Proposition 8 opened nationally June 18. The ...

SALT LAKE CITY - Mormon church founder Joseph Smith had a teenage bride and was married to other men's wives during the early days of the faith when polygamy was practiced, a new church essay ...

Every schoolboy knows that the Mormons (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) used to practice “celestial marriage,” better known as polygamy. Last summer sombre Idaho Novelist Vardis ...

Good news Wilson, the LDS church has just released an illustrated cartoon book about the history of polygamy among Mormons. No, it's not like the Kama Sutra. Church leaders call it an illustrated ...

A new A&E documentary series is exposing the reality of life within several Mormon sects that still embrace polygamy – including one associated with the stars of TLC’s hit series Sister Wives. Through ...

On the eve of America’s bicentennial in 1976, a leading authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints rose to speak at the Mormons’ biannual General Conference in Salt Lake City. “Can ...