To all exmos, post-Mos, and DAMUs looking for a creative outlet: Sideon has proposed a collaborative Book of Exmormon!!! Check out the inaugural post to join the party!!!
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Hey folks – if you can forward your version of the Word of Wisdom, that’d be faboo.
the Book of EXMO would have to be a recitation of varying accounts of the 1st Vision; scientific analysis-commentary on the BofAbraham; JS trial transcripts/journal entries, etc. Add a portion of Hofmann & JDLee, and Warren Jeffs…
Put a likeness of the Kinderhook plates on the cover… and WaLa!
For an appendix, add the Cliff’s notes version of a mediocre PR 101 textbook.