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Hey, everybody, this is Tim Chavez from Faith Matters. Today's episode kicks off our five-part series,

Unpacking Polygamy, a deep dive into one of the most complex and sensitive topics in our church's history.

We hope that you'll listen to the full series, where you'll hear from a variety of voices and

perspectives that help illuminate this part of our shared story. To start us off, we're honored to bring together two remarkable thinkers.

Patrick Mason is a historian, author, and Leonard J. Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture

at Utah State University.

And he's the co-host of Proclaimed Peace, another Faith Matters Network podcast.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is a Pulitzer Prize winning historian and professor emerita at Harvard

University.

In this episode, Patrick and Laurel explore what we actually know and how we know about

Joseph Smith's involvement in plural marriage, how the practice evolved in early Utah, and

the theological, social, and gender dynamics that shaped it.

Laurel also shares reflections from teaching a comparative polygamy course at Harvard

and considers how the echoes of plural marriage still reverberate today in our doctrine,

culture, and hearts. We're so grateful to both Patrick and Laurel for their honesty,

curiosity, and compassion. And now, here's the conversation with Patrick Mason and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.

Hi, everyone, and welcome to the Faith Matters podcast.

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