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Brian C. Hales

About Brian C. Hales

Brian C. Hales is a retired anesthesiologist who has published extensively on Joseph Smith and plural marriage. His more recent studies involve the origin of the Book of Mormon. Greg Kofford Books will be publishing his forthcoming book, Authoring Skills, Joseph Smith, and the Book of Mormon (working title).

Reality Checking the Entheogens Theory

by Brian C. Hales | Apr 24, 2024 | 3 comments

Joseph Smith’s Education and Intellect as Described in Documentary Sources

by Brian C. Hales | Oct 13, 2023 | 11 comments

Unavailable Genetic Evidence, Multiple Simultaneous Promised Lands, and Lamanites by Location? Possible Ramifications of the Book of Mormon Limited Geography Theory

by Brian C. Hales | Apr 21, 2023 | 35 comments

Joseph Smith as a Book of Mormon Storyteller

by Brian C. Hales | Aug 13, 2021 | 3 comments

Seeking a Global Context for the First Vision

by Brian C. Hales | Jun 11, 2021 | 0 comments

A Priesthood Restoration Narrative for Latter-day Saints Believers

by Brian C. Hales | Nov 13, 2020 | 0 comments

Theories and Assumptions: A Review of William L. Davis’s Visions in a Seer Stone

by Brian C. Hales | Sep 4, 2020 | 6 comments

Visions, Mushrooms, Fungi, Cacti, and Toads: Joseph Smith’s Reported Use of Entheogens

by Brian C. Hales | Jul 31, 2020 | 5 comments

Curiously Unique: Joseph Smith as Author of the Book of Mormon

by Brian C. Hales | Feb 15, 2019 | 29 comments

The Case of the Missing Commentary

by Brian C. Hales | Jul 20, 2018 | 3 comments

Changing Critics’ Criticisms of Book of Mormon Changes

by Brian C. Hales | Jan 26, 2018 | 16 comments

Joseph Smith: Monogamist or Polygamist?

by Brian C. Hales | May 12, 2017 | 86 comments

Opportunity Lost

by Brian C. Hales | Dec 16, 2016 | 55 comments

Dating Joseph Smith’s First Nauvoo Sealings

by Brian C. Hales | May 13, 2016 | 0 comments

A Response to Denver Snuffer’s Essay on Plural Marriage, Adoption, and the Supposed Falling Away of the Church – Part 2: Façade or Reality?

by Brian C. Hales | Jul 3, 2015 | 51 comments

A Response to Denver Snuffer’s Essay on Plural Marriage, Adoption, and the Supposed Falling Away of the Church – Part 1: Ignoring Inconvenient Evidence

by Brian C. Hales | Jun 26, 2015 | 36 comments

A Response to Grant Palmer’s “Sexual Allegations against Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Polygamy in Nauvoo”

by Brian C. Hales and Gregory L. Smith | Oct 10, 2014 | 29 comments

Big Trouble in River City: American Crucifixion and the Defaming of Joseph Smith

by Craig L. Foster and Brian C. Hales | Aug 8, 2014 | 24 comments

Dissenters: Portraying the Church as Wrong So They can be Right Without It

by Brian C. Hales | May 9, 2014 | 74 comments

Stretching to Find the Negative: Gary Bergera’s Review of Joseph Smith’s Polygamy: History and Theology

by Brian C. Hales | Aug 30, 2013 | 11 comments

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