My interview on WIRED.com's "Geek's Guide to the Galaxy" podcast
Though it doesn't officially come out until tomorrow, my interview with the Geek's Guide to the...
Joseph SmithA collection of 7 posts
Book excerpt! Chapter 4 from THE ACCIDENTAL TERRORIST
Excerpted from The Accidental Terrorist: Confessions of a Reluctant Missionary by William Shunn, available now! My mission began around the time the prophet Ezra Taft Benson forcefully reaffirmed Joseph Smith’s declaration that the Book of...
Book excerpt! Chapter 2 from THE ACCIDENTAL TERRORIST
Excerpted from The Accidental Terrorist: Confessions of a Reluctant Missionary by William Shunn, available now! Two years earlier, my father and I were driving back roads somewhere east of Victorville in the California desert when he...
The Book of Mormon: Joseph Smith's first novel
This essay is excerpted from The Accidental Terrorist: Confessions of a Reluctant Missionary, available everywhere November 10, 2015. WARNING: This...
Joseph Smith's "capital" idea
As I was working through the very final set of revisions on The Accidental Terrorist, I had to hunt down the original source of a well-known Joseph Smith quote on the topic of the accuracy of...
Yet another memoir excerpt—I call this one "Prophet Sharing"
[Looks like marriage is in the air. For more info on what the heck is going on here, click here.] The modern church has plenty of embarrassing historical specters hanging around, but few haunt it the...