Historians who have spent decades studying the life of Joseph Smith Jr. — born 220 years ago on Dec. 23, 1805 — report that the deeper one is willing to study, the more clarity arises about the kind of man Joseph Smith actually was.
“We’re living in a generation of people for whom research means making a quick search on the internet,” says Richard E. Turley Jr., lead author on an extensive upcoming biography about Joseph Smith.
Much of that social media or YouTube content about religious matters, including the life and character of the Prophet Joseph Smith, has a distinctly antagonistic motivation, he says…