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The first draft of Reluctant Polygamist was initially published as a series of blog articles at millennialstar.org from December 2013 through August 2014.
The first blog post in the series was titled A Faithful Joseph, and the series of posts were associated with that name. The title “Faithful Joseph” caused some to presume that Ms. Stout utterly rejects the possibility that Joseph Smith may have consummated the covenants he entered into with women other than legal wife Emma Hale [Smith]. This is why the book is titled Reluctant Polygamist.
A digest version of the Faithful Joseph series was produced in March 2015, roughly six months after the original series ended.
The table below shows how the blog post content maps to the final book, including posts discussing important insights after the August 2014 completion of the blog series.
| Chapter | Title | Faithful Joseph Post | Published |
| Preface | A Faithful Joseph | 12/17/2013 | |
| 1 | Prelude to a Killing | ||
| 2 | Why Would God Command Polygamy? | Why Would a Loving God Demand Polygamy? | 12/23/2013 |
| 3 | Guns, Germs, and Sex | Precursors to Joseph’s Polygamy | 12/30/2013 |
| 4 | The 1831 Revelation Regarding Plural Marriage | The 1831 Revelation Regarding Plural Marriage | 01/06/2014 |
| Of Wives and Handmaids | 01/16/2014 | ||
| 5 | Mormon Polygamy Prior to 1841 | The Decade of Delay | 02/06/2014 |
| 6 | Six Funerals and a Blessing | Six Funerals and a Blessing | 02/17/2014 |
| 7 | A Doctor and His Beloved | Winter of the Reluctant Virgins | 02/24/2014 |
| 8 | The Angel of the Lord | The Angel, the Sword, and the Heron Seduction | 03/10/2014 |
| 9 | Fall of the Doctor | Fall of the Doctor | 03/03/2014 |
| 10 | A Multitude of Sins | Give Brigham Young a Break | 10/13/2015 |
| Saul, Alma the Younger, and the tale of Martha Brotherton | 08/05/2016 | ||
| 11 | They Could Have Told Many Things | Winter of the Reluctant Virgins | 02/24/2014 |
| Saul, Alma the Younger, and the tale of Martha Brotherton | 08/05/2016 | ||
| 12 | Hunt in the City Beautiful | Hunt in the City Beautiful | 03/17/2014 |
| Endowed with Power | 08/18/2014 | ||
| The Redemption of the Endowment | 08/22/2016 | ||
| Josephine Lyon – The Definitive DNA answer | 06/11/2016 | ||
| Striker: History of a Definition | 09/16/2016 | ||
| 13 | Arraigning the Band of Brothers | Arraigning the Band of Brothers | 03/24/2014 |
| 14 | Plural Wives of 1842 | Wives of Sorrow | 03/31/2014 |
| 15 | Sangamo and Pratt | Sangamo and Pratt | 04/07/2014 |
| Dubious Anniversary | 12/29/2016 | ||
| 16 | The Apostles and Their Wives | The Apostles and Their Wives | 04/14/2014 |
| 17 | Eliza Roxcy Snow [Smith] | Eliza and the Stairs | 04/20/2014 |
| Making it up versus the Scientific Method | 04/24/2014 | ||
| Manuscript of Eliza’s Journal | 06/03/2014 | ||
| 18 | Healing Wounded Hearts | Healing Wounded Hearts | 05/05/2014 |
| 19 | Emma’s Ultimatum | Emma’s Ultimatum | 05/12/2014 |
| 20 | Revealing the Revelation | Revealing the Revelation | 05/19/2014 |
| From Whom Do We Learn History, comment describing discussion with Andrew Ehat | 12/05/2014 | ||
| 21 | Those Virtuous and Pure | Those Virtuous and Pure | 05/27/2014 |
| Why I am not Persuaded Joseph Smith had Sex with Plural Wives | 01/15/2015 | ||
| 22 | Daughter of Promise | Daughter of Promise | 06/02/2014 |
| 23 | The Prodigal Returns | The Prodigal Returns | 06/15/2014 |
| 24 | Conferring the Mantle | Conferring the Mantle | 06/22/2014 |
| 25 | Carthage, 1844 | Carthage, 1844 | 06/28/2014 |
| Heeding the Muse (Feeling the Spirit) | 10/01/2014 | ||
| 26 | Collecting the Sorrowful | Collecting the Sorrowful | 07/07/2014 |
| 27 | For Eternity and Time | For Eternity and Time | 07/13/2014 |
| 28 | Eradicating Spiritual Wifery | Give Brigham Young a Break | 10/13/2015 |
| Review: The Persistence of Polygamy, Volume 2 | 04/14/2015 | ||
| Zina Diantha Huntington Young: Exploring a Confusing Legacy | 08/30/2015 | ||
| 29 | Fifty Years in the Wilderness | Fifty Years in the Wilderness | 07/21/2014 |
| Pearson’s Ghost of Eternal Polygamy: Review | 09/06/2016 | ||
| 30 | Days of Defiance | Days of Defiance | 08/04/2014 |
| 31 | God’s Strange Act: A Legacy | God’s Strange Act: A Legacy | 08/11/2014 |
| Appendix A | Conscientious History: A Guide | From Whom Do We Learn History, comment | 12/03/2014 |
| Appendix B | Small Arms Ballistics | ||
| Appendix C | Alleged Children of Joseph Smith | ||
| Appendix D | Timeline | ||
| Appendix E | The Peace of thy Children | The Book of Joseph | 05/12/2015 |