Yesterday, I posted an item — part of a larger series of posts indicating his sincerity — to illustrate Joseph Smith’s apparent lack of affectation. This was much the same impression that his contemporaries had of Joseph, even late in his career. “He is a man that you could not help liking as a man,” George W. Taggart wrote from Nauvoo to his three non-Mormon brothers in the fall of 1843, “setting aside the religious prejudice... Read more