Joseph Smith's Polygamy

I was grateful to have the opportunity to speak at the 2015 FairMormon conference in Provo, Utah. My assigned topic was ... Read more

An overview of how Joseph Smith proposed to potential brides. The post Episode 3 (Joseph): Joseph’s Proposals appeared f... Read more

Few things are more confusing to observers than Joseph Smith’s sealings to legally married women. Due to limitations in ... Read more

Joseph Smith was sealed to ten women under that age of twenty. Four were nineteen, three were seventeen, one was sixteen... Read more

A short biographical sketch. The post Bio 11: Fanny Alger appeared first on Joseph Smith's Polygamy.

Joseph Smith identified four reasons for the restoration of plural marriage with the fourth being much more important th... Read more

Some question whether Joseph Smith’s plural marriages included sexuality. The answer is yes or no, depending upon the ty... Read more

(Nauvoo Polygamy–1843) By mid-1843, Joseph Smith’s practice of polygamy was becoming one of Nauvoo’s worst kept secrets.... Read more

In 1841 in Nauvoo, Illinois, Joseph Smith began to secretly teach that Old Testament polygamy as practiced by Abraham, J... Read more

A short biographical sketch. The post Bio 23: Mary Elizabeth Rollins appeared first on Joseph Smith's Polygamy.

Sometime in late 1835 or early 1836, in a priesthood ceremony performed by Levi Hancock, Joseph secretly married Fanny A... Read more

A short biographical sketch. The post Bio 18: Lucy Walker appeared first on Joseph Smith's Polygamy.

A short biographical sketch. The post Bio 15: Helen Mar Kimball appeared first on Joseph Smith's Polygamy.

(Nauvoo Polygamy–1841) The first year of Nauvoo polygamy began with Joseph Smith’s time-and-eternity sealing to Louisa B... Read more

(Nauvoo Polygamy–1842) In 1842, John C. Bennett, a friend and former boarder at the Smith home, fell out of favor. As qu... Read more

(The Early Kirtland Years) Joseph Smith reportedly learned that plural marriage had in the past been a divinely sanction... Read more

A short biographical sketch. The post Bio 22: Martha McBride appeared first on Joseph Smith's Polygamy.

Emma encountered difficult challenges arising from the establishment of plural marriage. Joseph Smith reported that he w... Read more

A short biographical sketch. The post Bio 06: Eliza R. Snow appeared first on Joseph Smith's Polygamy.

A short biographical sketch. The post Bio 30: Ruth Vose appeared first on Joseph Smith's Polygamy.