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How an accidental historian won over critics and shed light on two of Mormonism’s darkest hours (Leah Hogsten | Tribune file photo) Richard Turley holds one of Joseph Smiths personal documents during a news conference to announce a release in the "Joseph Smith Papers" project in 2013. Turley recently retired. | Updated: March 4, 2021, 3:33 p.m. It was 1986, a dark time for Mormon historians. Just months earlier, infamous document collector Mark Hofmann had forged his way into the market ...

Deseret News Share this story Deseret Book The author of a new biography about President Dallin H. Oaks is on a mission to set the record straight about the stern public image of the first counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints based in Salt Lake City. Some church members, and even his own family members, don’t always see that in his face when President Oaks, who is 88, delivers serious, doctrinal talks during the faith’s semiannual general conf...

Jana Riess: For Latter-day Saints, being led by old men can be a blessing and a curse With an average age of 90, top church leaders are unlikely to be named in headlines about religious sex scandals. The cost of gerontocracy, though, is that they are also resistant to needed social change. (Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) President Russell M. Nelson, center, greets M. Russell Ballard, acting president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, while followed by his counselors, Dallin H. ...

of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As fast as the blood flows into the right atrium of President Spencer W. Kimball’s stopped heart, a tube pumps it out of his body and into a machine next to the operating table. Dr. Russell M. Nelson peers down into the chest cavity. The room smells of cauterized blood vessels and arteries. Not long ago, this was unthinkable. Operating on a live heart was a medical sin when he entered medical school. The blood streaming into the machine had...