402: Brian Hales Pt. 1 - A Refutation of Grant Palmer’s Treatment of Sexual Allegations Against Joseph Smith
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2013
⏱️ 89 minutes
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| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John |
| 0:33.2 | Delin. We are recording this interview both in audio form and also in video form we're going to |
| 0:39.6 | be posting it to YouTube at youtube.com slash Mormon Stories. But today we have with us Dr. Brian |
| 0:47.3 | C. Hales. Dr. Hales is an anesthesiologist living in the Salt Lake area and he's also a noted author. |
| 0:57.6 | But the topic of today's presentation is a response to Grant Palmer's claims of sexual |
| 1:04.0 | allegations against Joseph Smith. Before we dig into that, I just want to talk to you a little bit |
| 1:10.3 | about Brian. Brian, as I mentioned, is the author of several books. The priesthood of Mormon |
| 1:17.0 | polygamy, modern polygamy and Mormon fundamentalism and setting that I could straight, Mormon fundamentalism. |
| 1:23.6 | Those are three books that he's published. He also is the owner of two websites. One's called |
| 1:29.4 | Mormon Fundamentalism.com and the other is Joseph Smith's polygamy.com. You can see the URLs |
| 1:37.5 | on the YouTube presentation, but we'll post those as well on the Mormon Stories |
| 1:44.7 | post up on MormonStories.org. But one of the most exciting things about Brian is that he's |
| 1:52.4 | about to release along with Coford books, Greg Coford books. Three volume series on Joseph Smith's |
| 2:00.4 | polygamy. Volume one is dedicated to history. Volume two is dedicated to what? Is it history as well? |
| 2:10.4 | Yeah, the first, the histories had to be split into two. Okay. And then the volume three is |
| 2:16.0 | theology. These books are being released on February 26, 2013. That's in six days from the |
| 2:23.5 | recording of this episode. You can buy these books at either benchmark books at Coford Books |
| 2:28.8 | or on Amazon. And at least two of those outlets are offering sort of a pre-release sale if you |
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