‘Mormon Land’: Historians examine Joseph Smith’s ‘First Vision,’ why his various accounts differ and what can be learned from them

This week’s podcast takes listeners to the early days of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In fact, it travels back to the earliest day, the moment that gave birth to the Mormon movement.Latter-day Saints know it as the “First Vision,” in which church founder Joseph Smith said he saw God.As members around the globe prepare to mark the bicentennial of this event this spring, the “Joseph Smith Papers” project has released a series of six podcasts that e