Ideas conquered long ago

Long ago, Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery conquered false claims that the Book of Mormon was fiction or that it came through a stone in a hat. But in recent years certain LDS scholars have resurfaced the false claims. To conquer them again, we have to return to what Joseph and Oliver taught.

Monday, April 3, 2017

New book: Because of this Theory

For a long time people have been asking for a book version of this blog. I've explained that the entire blog is far too much to print; last time I checked, it was at about 1600 pages.

But I wanted a printed copy myself, as well as a Kindle version, so I started working on it.

Instead of printing the entire blog, I started with March 2017 and went backwards until I had about 100,000 words of good material, which took me back to August, 2016. I edited it somewhat, eliminated time-related posts, and put the whole thing in book format. I also added a few posts from other blogs when they were directly referenced here.

I titled it Because of this Theory, referencing Joseph Fielding Smith's warning about the two-Cumorahs theory that, sadly, has been ignored by many LDS scholars and educators.

I like the way it turned out.

As of this writing, the book is at #6 on Amazon's New Releases in Mormonism.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/new-releases/books/12430/ref=zg_bsnr_nav_b_3_16009761

For today and tomorrow (3-4 April, 2017), the introductory price for beta readers is $8.99. After that, it will be at the regular price of $19.99.

The Kindle version should be available soon, but I can't predict when.


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