Did Joseph Smith have any regrets about plural marriage?

Like with full hindsight, if he could go back and change anything about the way he implemented

plural marriage what might he do differently also more and more people are

denying that Joseph Smith ever practiced polygamy or that he lied about doing so.

Is there even a shred of truth to either of these claims?

Did Joseph ever send men on missions and marry their wives while they were gone. Were there any women who denied

Joseph's proposals for plural marriage? If so, what happened to them? What was Emma's relationship

to plural marriage after the Saints left Nava for Utah?

And is there any truth to the idea that plural marriage existed because there are more faithful

women than men?

In today's episode of Church History Matters we tackle all of these

questions and more with Dr. Brian Hells. I'm Scott Woodward and my co-host is

Casey Griffiths and today we dive into our sixth and final episode in this

series dealing with plural marriage now let's get into it Hello and I have some good news you the sad news first.

The sad news is Casey Griffith is not here with us today because he needed to be elsewhere.

So Casey, you are missed. But the good news is we have as our guest today Dr.

Brian C. Hales, who if you've been following along with us in this series, then you know that Casey and I have been referencing and quoting extensively from the research of Brian Hills. or co-author of seven books dealing with plural marriage including the three volume

Joseph Smith's polygamy history and theology set he is a retired anesthesiologist

and is currently researching the origin of the Book of Mormon.

And so I'm excited to dive into our discussion today.

Brian, welcome.

We're excited to have you on the show today.

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