The ‘First Vision’ most Latter-day Saints know little about

A teenage boy in upstate New York went to a secluded wood one spring day in 1820 to ask God about his sins and his prospects for salvation. Now, 200 years later, that boy and that experience have been scrutinized, analyzed, criticized, idealized, demonized and romanticized.Joseph Smith’s “First Vision,” as it is known to the 16.3 million members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is the basis of books and essays, podcasts and popular speeches, art installations