Before you decide to purchase a copy, I would remind you everything in these 5 volumes is already on the blog for free. You needn't buy one to have the information. The blog will remain up. However, interruptions in the Internet, as well as planned regulation of the Internet may affect whether this blog remains.
I don't plan to post on the blog any longer; though I do plan to write.
The 5 volumes does not include any of the essays that are linked on this blog. There will eventually be a separate volume of essays which will contain those, and some additional material. No date is planned for completing that volume.
If you decide to purchase the books then you should know the 5 volumes are comprehensive, and therefore include what has already been printed in Removing the Condemnation. The material from that book takes two volumes (volumes 2 and 3) of the new set. If you already have Removing the Condemnation and decide you would like the rest of the material, then you needn't purchase volumes 2 and 3. In Removing the Condemnation, the material is compressed into a single volume with smaller print size and more pages. In this new set, the type is larger, so it required two volumes.
For those considering purchasing, the books make some few improvements. First, some subjects were interrupted by some added posts and then continued. In the printed version, the subjects are gathered together and the interrupting blog posts moved to follow, rather than intrude into the discussion of a certain subject. There are a minimal clarifications of what may have been ambiguous. There are no hyperlinks, therefore all the scriptures referenced are now footnotes on the same page as the scripture reference. There are over 2,400 pages of materials. Each book contains approximately 400 pages. There are over 2,700 footnotes in the volumes. Pages are numbered in sequence, from page 1 in volume 1 to page 2,400+ in volume 5.
Below are the Table of Contents from each of the 5 volumes:
Vol. 1: [ISBN: 978-0989150309]
CHAPTER PAGE
Peculiar Indeed.......................................................... 1
Grow in Light........................................................... 19
Angels and Mysteries................................................ 43
What Guarantee Do We Have?................................. 63
Truth Is Independent............................................... 105
My Glasses Aren’t Rose Colored............................ 147
D&C 132................................................................155
Grow Where You Are Planted.................................173
Humor Requires Underlying Truth........................... 187
The Traditions of Men............................................ 229
Awake and Arise....................................................253
Philosophies of Men............................................... 301
Isaiah 53.................................................................335
The Scriptures Have Answers................................. 353
Speaking Plainly......................................................363
A Message of Warning........................................... 393
Vol. 2: [ISBN: 978-0989150316]
Alma 13.................................................................. 437
3 Nephi 16.............................................................. 499
1 Nephi 13.............................................................. 527
1 Nephi 14.............................................................. 557
3 Nephi 21.............................................................. 599
2 Nephi 28.............................................................. 641
2 Nephi 29.............................................................. 729
2 Nephi 30.............................................................. 759
2 Nephi 31.............................................................. 789
Vol. 3: [ISBN: 978-0989150323]
2 Nephi 32.............................................................. 843
2 Nephi 33.............................................................. 863
The Remnant.......................................................... 891
3 Nephi 20.............................................................. 921
The Remnant Continued........................................ 956
3 Nephi 11.............................................................. 966
3 Nephi 12............................................................ 1013
3 Nephi 13............................................................ 1099
3 Nephi 14............................................................ 1131
3 Nephi 15............................................................ 1157
3 Nephi 18............................................................ 1173
Summary ............................................................. 1217
Vol. 4: [ISBN: 978-0989150330]
Restoration and Apostasy...................................... 1221
Passing the Heavenly Gift..................................... 1279
Turns and Returns................................................. 1347
Priesthood.............................................................1369
Let’s Just Vote on It..............................................1397
Interpreting History............................................... 1427
It Was Already Like This When We Found It....... 1463
Nephi’s Brother Jacob..........................................1531
Jacob 5................................................................ 1553
Themes from Jacob 5............................................1619
Criticism of the Church......................................... 1631
Joseph Smith History ........................................... 1649
Vol. 5: [ISBN: 978-0989150347]
Unity or Hierarchy................................................ 1677
I Am a Mormon.................................................... 1689
Power in the
Priesthood.........................................1727
Mosiah..................................................................1749
Tattoos and Plural
Wives....................................... 1807
Received of His
Fulness........................................ 1849
Hyrum Smith......................................................... 1889
Sorting Things Out................................................. 1907
Forgiving and
Charity............................................ 1933
God’s Many Works...............................................1953
Baptism of Fire
& the Holy Ghost.......................... 1973
Role of Women..................................................... 2005
The Battle Is
Within You....................................... 2025
Churches Built by
Men.......................................... 2067
Scriptures............................................................. 2081
144,000.................................................................2089
Index.................................................................... 2123
These are now available directly from Createspace.com as well as at Amazon.com. A link has now been put to the Amazon site by clicking on the Volume numbers above. Remember though, that the content will remain available here for free.