In Joseph Smith Jr.Õs first vision, God the Father and Jesus Christ told him to re-establish ChristÕs church on Earth. The vision dates to 1820; this stained glass depiction was completed in 1913 by an unknown artist. With unprecedented access to church archives and with the cooperation of church leadership, renowned filmmaker Helen Whitney (ÒFaith and Doubt at Ground ZeroÓ and ÒThe Millennial PopeÓ) paints a complex portrait of Mormonism, a portrait that neither vilifies the church nor extols it.
Credit: Museum of Church History and Art/Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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