The Work and the Glory

When Benjamin Steed and Mary Ann Steed relocate their family to upstate New York in the early 1800's, they unwittingly settle in a town divided along religious lines. After their new hired help turns out to be at the center of the uproar, each member of the Steed family must come to terms with their own beliefs in the face of heavy persecution. Together they struggle to weather the raging controversy surrounding a young man named Joseph Smith.

• based on novel or book
• faith
• book of mormon
• prophet
• sibling rivalry
• new york state
• mormon
• latter day saints
• 19th century
• father son relationship
• brother brother relationship