In episode 13 of Let's Get Real with Stephen Jones, Don Bradley speaks candidly about why he, as an LDS Polygamy and Joseph Smith Historian, left and came back to the LDS Church.

00:00 Intro
00:58 "What will I have to do to come back?" | Coming Back
04:31 "The Lord wants you back in His church."
11:45 "Just to show that God had a sense of humor. . . "
15:27 "I had to go through what is called a restoration of blessings."
21:42 "This has to do with Joseph Smith and Polygamy."
34:40 "One of these things is not like the others."
44:02 "This doesn't look like it is about sex. If it were, we would expect him to do it differently."
49:57 "I'm totally open to building on what any other historian finds."
55:37 "People leave the church but they don't leave it alone. What's your perspective on that?"
01:03:26 "What I would say to people who are questioning, have doubts, or who have even lost their faith."
01:07:24 "Looking at the good things in my life and realizing I didn't have anybody to thank."

Don's book The Lost 116 Pages: Reconstructing the Book of Mormon's Missing Stories:
https://www.amazon.com/Lost116Pages...

Don Bradley's Academia.edu page, with several of his publications, including one on the John Alger account of the First Vision:
https://josephsmithpapers.academia.ed...