What goes into writing a book? How feasible is it that Joseph Smith could have written or dictated the Book of Mormon as a fraud or a work of fiction? Elder Jeffrey R. Holland taught "For 179 years this book has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other book in modern religious history—perhaps like no other book in any religious history. And still it stands. Failed theories about its origins have been born and parroted and have died—from Ethan Smith to Solomon Spaulding to deranged paranoid to cunning genius. None of these frankly pathetic answers for this book has ever withstood examination because there is no other answer than the one Joseph gave as its young unlearned translator." This episode looks at what goes into authoring and publishing a book and poses a challenge to the viewer/listener to attempt to write their own version of the Book of Mormon.
