I've thought about it a lot,
read it often. I wrote a book about the Book of Mormon,
partly just because I wanted my own conviction,
my testimony, to be in print, even if only for my children's sake.
I dismiss out of hand the early criticism that somehow this was a book that Joseph Smith wrote.
The only thing more miraculous than an angel providing him with those plates and him translating them by divine inspiration would be that he sat down and wrote it with a ballpoint pen and a spiral notebook.
