Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast as always I'm your host

John DeLin and I'm here for part two of my interview with Brian Hales. Brian is the author

of several books but the books that we're going to be talking about today are three books

that are set to release six days from the recording of this podcast on February 26, 2013.

Brian Coford books will be releasing a three volume series called Joseph Smith's polygamy that deals with the history of

Joseph Smith's polygamy and the theology of it. You can buy these books at Benchmark Coford and in Amazon. We

encourage you to support these great books and to support Brian and Greg Coford books. I'll also say just for my good

friend Lloyd that Brian will be involved in two book signings on February 27th from 530 to 730 at Benchmark

books in Salt Lake City and March 9th at 7pm at Pioneer book in Orom. Brian and I believe his

researcher Don Bradley will also be in attendance to discuss and answer questions about this book.

Just for our listeners this is also a video presentation which we're releasing on youtube.com slash

Mormon stories or you can probably get a link to it from MormonStories.org the video portion but

there's a you know 81 slides in this presentation that you'll be listening to today so for those

of you who are visual learners want to see the visuals you can either watch this on YouTube

watch the youtube video Mormon Stories or we'll allow you to download the PowerPoint presentation

and you can have that for your reference. The only other thing I'll say before jumping in is that

this is a four-part series if you count the interview on a thoughtful faith.org that the wonderful

Sarah Collette did which you can think of as a deep dive into Joseph Smith's polygamy. Sarah's

a great interviewer she's much more knowledgeable about this topic than I am and she and Brian do

a two to three-hour deep dive. The second part is something Brian and I just recorded which was a

response to Grant Palmer's allegations of Joseph of sexual improprieties against Joseph Smith.

We just recorded that that's also available on youtube and Mormon Stories you can watch that as well.

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