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This is Mormon Stories. I'm John DeLin.

Today I'm very excited to have with me a very distinguished panel to discuss Karen Armstrong's

relatively new book called The Case for God. For those of you who tuned in to the

previous episode, we released Karen Armstrong's interview with Terry Gross on the Fresh Air

NPR radio program from I believe last October of 2009. It is now March 2010 and all of us

have tried to read The Case for God or at least the important parts of it and have come prepared.

In my distinguished panel, I will now introduce, I will begin with the ladies first.

We have with us Joanna Brooks who has a website called AskMormonGirl.com. Is that right Joanna?

Yep.

And she's a department head at San Diego State University in the English department and a well-known

scholar of all sorts of things. I won't go into your bio because we did that in my previous interview.

But thanks for coming on Joanna.

Always a pleasure.

We also have with us Jane Elson C. Wright who is well known in his own right on the Mormon Internet

as a blogger for BCC and I don't know Jason what else you want me to tell the listeners about you.

Nothing would be fine.

Okay. Jason is an academic heavyweight but I'll let you guys Google him if you'd like as to what he does in his background.

And finally we have with this John Hamer who I've also interviewed on Mormon stories.

He is a Mormon historian. He's contributed to the Joseph Smith papers project.

He's an important part and a co-leader of the John Whitmer Association.

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