The History of Joseph Smith

• NEW! The friction between Isaac Hale and his son-in-law Joseph Smith
• Crash Course Mormonism: Joseph Smith
• 10 reasons why Joseph Smith should not be considered a true prophet of God
• How the Residents of Wayne County Viewed Joseph Smith and Family
• Folk magic
• Joseph Smith: The Second Muhammad?
• Fooling the Prophet with the Kinderhook Plates
• Joseph Smith’s Alleged Ignorance of the Bible
• Should Joseph Smith appear today
• Joseph Smith is triggering faith crises among Mormons
• Guess who? — See how you do on the quiz
• Joseph Smith wasn’t arrogant or boastful? (Blog)
• Citizen Smith (Blog)
• Is the Church Established on any Man? (Blog)
• Joseph Smith and Honesty (Blog)

The First Vision of Joseph Smith

• Do the First Vision Accounts Coincide?
• The First Vision Account: Response to the LDS.org Essay
• First Vision: Fact or Fiction?
• Which First Vision Account Should we Believe?
• The First Vision’s Slow Entrance
• “Additional Perspectives and Insights” Into Joseph Smith’s First Vision
• “The Sweet Dream of a Pure Minded Boy” (Blog)

The Killing of Joseph Smith

• Of Martyrs and Lambs
• Final Moments at Carthage Jail
• The “Martyrdom” of Joseph Smith
• Legends of Joseph (Blog)

The Lifting up of Joseph Smith

• The Boast of Joseph
• Paying Allegiance to Joseph Smith
• The Season for Safeguarding Joseph Smith’s Honor
• Joseph Smith is needed if the atonement is to be “fully efficacious”
• Mormonism’s Near Deification of Joseph Smith
• Praise to the man
• President of the resurrection
• No salvation without Joseph Smith
• The Salvific Role of Joseph Smith
• Comparison with Jonah
• A greater prophet than Isaiah?
• An Alarming Misunderstanding of Joseph Smith’s Significance to Christianity
• Joseph Smith’s Grandiloquent Assertion (Blog)
• The Worship of Joseph Smith (Blog)
• Testing Joseph Smith’s Integrity (Blog)
• As Mormons we worship…? (Blog)
• Joseph Smith for President (Blog)
• Praise to the Man (Blog)

The plural marriages of Joseph Smith

• Joseph’s Wives.com
• Plural Marriage and Joseph Smith: A PR Nightmare in Mormonism
• The Virtue of Joseph Smith
• Review of Plural Marriage in Kirtland of Nauvoo (Gospel Topics Essay)
• Joseph Smith and his many wives
• Joseph Smith’s aberrational marriage habits
• Amorous advances by the Mormon prophet
• Did Joseph have sex with his plural wives? (and other questions answered)
• Did Emma Smith ever approve of polygamy? (from Mormon Enigma)
• Whatever happened to Emily and Eliza Partridge?
• Faithful Mormons Respond to Joseph Smith’s polygamy (Blog)
• Early Mormon Marriages: Tangled Webs (Blog)
• The Wives of Joseph Smith (offsite)
• Joseph Smith Polygamy Timeline (offsite)
• Would you share your wife with the Prophet? (offsite)
• Was it normal to marry 14-year-old girls in Joseph Smith’s time? (offsite)
• Did Joseph Smith have sex with his wives? (offsite)

Viewpoint on Mormonism Podcasts

• Maynes and the First Vision, June 6-10, 2016 Part 1  Part 2   Part 3   Part 4   Part 5
• More Jesus Less Joseph, April 4-7, 2016  Part 1  Part 2  Part 3  Part 4
• Was Joseph Smith a Methodist? Aug 28, 2015
• Was Joseph Smith a Money Digger? Part 1  Part 2  Part 3  Part 4 August 24-26, 2015
• Praising Joseph the Seer, July 29, 2015
• Was Joseph Smith a Braggart?  Part 1  Part 2  Part 3  September 30-October 2, 2014 (Blog)
• First Vision Accounts (Gospel Topics Essay)   Part 1  Part 2  Part 3  Part 4  Part 5  Part 6  Part 7  Part 8  Part 9  Part 10  June 2-13, 2014   (Article 1)  (Article 2)  (Article 3)
• The First Vision and the Resurrection (Rob Bowman)  April 22, 2014  (Article 1)  (Article 2)  (Article 3)
• Joseph Smith Part 1  Part 2  October 24-25, 2012 (List of articles)
• First Vision November 23, 2011  (Article 1)  (Article 2)  (Article 3)
• What if Thomas S. Monson were more like Joseph Smith? December 9, 2011  (Series of articles)

YouTube Videos

• Joseph Smith and his 34 wives at the Mormon Miracle Pageant in Manti, UT (8:50): Faces behind the names in a portrayal to help Latter-day Saints see what Smith’s polygamy really looks like. This portrayal was done on June 26, 2015.
• Jesus Christ / Joseph Smith (1:20.17): A comparison documentary between Jesus Christ and Joseph Smith.
• Joseph Smith vs. Muhammad (1:00): Doris Hanson (What Love is This?) interviews Eric Johnson on similarities between the Mormon founder and Islam’s Muhammad. Aired on January 9th, 2014 on Channel 20-Utah.
• Joseph Smith and the Golden Plates (1:00): Doris Hanson (What Love is This?) interviews Bill McKeever about the weight of the gold plates. Aired on February 14, 2013 on Channel 20-Utah.
• The Untold Story of Joseph Smith’s Death (1:00): Doris Hanson (What Love is This?) interviews Bill McKeever about the “marytrdom” of the LDS Church founder. Aired on February 2, 2012 on Channel 20-Utah.
• Joseph Smith’s First Vision Accounts (1:00): Doris Hanson (What Love is This?) interviews Bill McKeever about the different versions that are given regarding the LDS founder’s vision of God the Father and Jesus. Aired on May 12 and 19, 2011.  Part 1    Part 2
• Joseph Smith as a Passport into God’s Presence (0:52): Bill McKeever explains how Joseph Smith is vital for Latter-day Saints.
• Joseph Smith as a Sexual Predator (5:41): Sandra Tanner talks frankly about Joseph Smith’s escapades.
•  The Stories of the Wives of Joseph Smith (41:09): Many people may be surprised to learn that Joseph Smith had 33 wives, including 10 (or 11) who were married to other men and 11 who were teenagers.
• The Thirty Plus Wives of Joseph Smith (4:11): A list of the women whom Joseph Smith married.
• The Thirty Four Wives of Joseph Smith (56:54): Chip Thompson (Tri-Grace Ministries) talks about the many wives of Joseph Smith at the 2011 Capstone Conference.
• The Untold Story of the Death of Joseph Smith (25:54): Bill McKeever talks about the true events surrounding the death (what Mormons call the “martyrdom”) of Joseph Smith.

         Stories of Joseph Smith’s Wives (actresses playing wives of Joseph Smith)_____________

• Story of Louisa Beamon, Joseph Smith’s 4th Wife (1:22)
• Story of Sylvia Sessions Lyon, Joseph Smith’s 8th Wife (1:12)
• Story of Mary Rollins Lightner, Joseph Smith’s 9th Wife (0:51)
• Story of Patty Bartlett Sessions, Joseph Smith’s 10th Wife (1:13)
• Story of Marinda Johnson Hyde, Joseph Smith’s 11th Wife (1:03)
• Story of Elizabeth Davis Durfee, Joseph Smith’s 12th Wife (2:12)
• Story of Sarah Kingsley Cleveland, Joseph Smith’s 13th Wife (1:35)
• Story of Eliza R. Snow, Joseph Smith’s 15th Wife (1:34)
• Story of Sarah Ann Whitney, Joseph Smith’s 16th Wife (0:59)
• Story of Martha McBride Knight, Joseph Smith;s 17th Wife (0:51)
• Story of the Partridge sisters, Joseph’s Smith 20th and 21st Wives (1:49)
• Story of Lucy Walker, Joseph Smith’s 23rd Wife (1:54)