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I can assure the Committee that I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the LDS church.

A loyal nonmo,

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Yes, Professor Castorp! Most interesting, no? Dee was fascinated by the Book of Enoch, so I don't think we can situate the end of his cooperation with Smith in the translation process at the end of the period of the Book of Mormon's production. Clearly Dee and Kelley had to have been involved in th...

Another bullseye!

Dee seems to have had an almost obsessive facination with the lost Apocrypha, especially the Book of Enoch.
Joseph Peterson, editor of Dr. Dee's Five Books of Mystery

I think you are overlooking the explanatory power that the obvious involvement of Dee and Kelley in the translation process possesses. This is not random, good sir! Dee and Kelley were precisely the two figures whom one would expect to guide an Enochian revelatory process. Based on descriptions of ...

I am a veteran of the Press, though my time with them was thirty-odd years ago. They didn't have a Mormon list then; the only Mormon-ish title I can recall is Larry Foster's Religion and Sexuality (I wrote the flap copy for that one). The current executive religion editor has been a friend of mine f...

I am definitely melancholic. The four humours are every bit as scientific as the MBPI. Oh, and then there's astrology. It's amazing how my sign describes me. Psychoanalysis or CBT? Dante or Shakespeare? Tolstoy or Dostoevsky? Left-handed or right-handed? Eldest, middle, youngest, or only child? Repu...

i suspect that the most vocal and fervent defenders of the faith are more plagued by doubts than most members. That's threatens theirwhy they become so vocal and fervent. They're trying to convince themselves, first and foremost. I think this is true to some extent. Sometimes there are other reason...

I'll go with Jeanne d'Arc:



Although things didn't go too well for her:

Seems like there's more than archiving going on in the mountain. Are the brethren going to be waging a little biological warfare? Tell us, Bob, please tell us.

I'm not a fan of McGrath at all - he's pretty awful Agreed. McGrath is the DCP/Midgley of the evangelical world. Smart, but kind of a... well, you know. I'm not familiar with McGrath's apologetics, but his work on the history of the doctrine of justification and the theology of the Reformation is m...