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Brian C. Hales

About Brian C. Hales

Brian C. Hales is currently an MA (history) student at Arizona State University. He is also the author or co-author of seven books dealing with polygamy. Brian works as an anesthesiologist at the Davis Hospital and Medical Center in Layton, Utah. He and his wife Laura Hales are co-webmasters of JosephSmithsPolygamy.org.

Joseph Smith as a Book of Mormon Storyteller

by Brian C. Hales | Aug 13, 2021 | 3 comments

Seeking a Global Context for the First Vision

by Brian C. Hales | Jun 11, 2021 | 0 comments

A Priesthood Restoration Narrative for Latter-day Saints Believers

by Brian C. Hales | Nov 13, 2020 | 0 comments

Theories and Assumptions: A Review of William L. Davis’s Visions in a Seer Stone

by Brian C. Hales | Sep 4, 2020 | 6 comments

Visions, Mushrooms, Fungi, Cacti, and Toads: Joseph Smith’s Reported Use of Entheogens

by Brian C. Hales | Jul 31, 2020 | 5 comments

Curiously Unique: Joseph Smith as Author of the Book of Mormon

by Brian C. Hales | Feb 15, 2019 | 29 comments

The Case of the Missing Commentary

by Brian C. Hales | Jul 20, 2018 | 3 comments

Changing Critics’ Criticisms of Book of Mormon Changes

by Brian C. Hales | Jan 26, 2018 | 16 comments

Joseph Smith: Monogamist or Polygamist?

by Brian C. Hales | May 12, 2017 | 84 comments

Opportunity Lost

by Brian C. Hales | Dec 16, 2016 | 55 comments

Dating Joseph Smith’s First Nauvoo Sealings

by Brian C. Hales | May 13, 2016 | 0 comments

A Response to Denver Snuffer’s Essay on Plural Marriage, Adoption, and the Supposed Falling Away of the Church – Part 2: Façade or Reality?

by Brian C. Hales | Jul 3, 2015 | 51 comments

A Response to Denver Snuffer’s Essay on Plural Marriage, Adoption, and the Supposed Falling Away of the Church – Part 1: Ignoring Inconvenient Evidence

by Brian C. Hales | Jun 26, 2015 | 36 comments

A Response to Grant Palmer’s “Sexual Allegations against Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Polygamy in Nauvoo”

by Brian C. Hales and Gregory L. Smith | Oct 10, 2014 | 29 comments

Big Trouble in River City: American Crucifixion and the Defaming of Joseph Smith

by Craig L. Foster and Brian C. Hales | Aug 8, 2014 | 24 comments

Dissenters: Portraying the Church as Wrong So They can be Right Without It

by Brian C. Hales | May 9, 2014 | 73 comments

Stretching to Find the Negative: Gary Bergera’s Review of Joseph Smith’s Polygamy: History and Theology

by Brian C. Hales | Aug 30, 2013 | 10 comments

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