Testing 1, 2, 3, testing 1, 2, 3, this is Radio Free Mormon on the air broadcasting

behind Enemy Lines. Tonight's episode, the amazingly subversive, Terrell Givens. Now, who

is Terrell Givens? Most of my audience will already be familiar with Terrell Givens.

For those of you who happen to not be or may not have heard of him or his writings,

let me give him a brief introduction. And to do this, I will just go to his own web page.

And read you the first paragraph. Terrell L. Givens was born in upstate New York,

raised in the American Southwest, Yada Yada Yada, as professor of literature and religion,

and the J-Bez A. Boswick, professor of English. At the University of Richmond, he taught courses

in Romanticism, 19th century cultural studies, and the Bible, and literature. Currently,

he is a Neil L. Maxwell senior fellow at Brigham Young University. He has published in literary

British and European Romanticism, Mormon Studies, and Intellectual History. The New York Times

has praised him for his provocative writing, and Harper's has called him fair-minded, scholarly,

and unbiased. It goes on here with a number of other paragraphs and a number of his other writings.

He has written a number of books in the last 20 years or so related to Mormonism. I've read

a number of those books. I remember reading his book about the Book of Mormon. It was called

by the Hand of Mormon. The American scripture that launched a new world religion. That was published

back in 2003. I also read his book called People of Paradox, A History of Mormon Culture from 2007,

and The God Who Weeps, which was published by Deseret in 2012. I also read his book titled The

Crucible of Doubt. Terrell Givens has frequently been called a neo-apologist. A neo-apologist is a

different kind of animal from the traditional apologist. Traditional apologists fall more in the

camp of Daniel Peterson, Steven Smoot, and my good friend Quaycu L. What traditional apologists do

is they argue for the truth of Mormonism at all costs. They are not above keeping information

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