How the study of Mormon history has changed: ‘We have learned to face up to our facts and to be very candid’

“Our leaders are going to have flaws from time to time,” says Joseph Smith biographer Richard Bushman. “And that does not in any way weaken the force of what they accomplished.”

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Historian Richard Bushman, shown in 2023, argues Joseph Smith's story should be "burned in the people’s memory."