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Like other notable LDS apologists such as Jeff Lindsay, Michael R. Ash, and Daniel C. Peterson, Shirts work is often featured through websites and other online resources. Since 2007, blogging particularly among Latter-day Saints arose in part in response to Elder M. Russell Ballard’s admonishment to use the internet as a tool to share the beliefs of the LDS Church.<ref>{{cite web|last=Russell |first=Elder M. |url=http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=72443645a2cba110VgnVCM100000176f620a____&vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD |title=Ensign Article - Sharing the Gospel Using the Internet |publisher=LDS.org |date=2007-12-15 |accessdate=2010-02-13}}</ref>  

Like other notable LDS apologists such as Jeff Lindsay, Michael R. Ash, and Daniel C. Peterson, Shirts work is often featured through websites and other online resources. Since 2007, blogging particularly among Latter-day Saints arose in part in response to Elder M. Russell Ballard’s admonishment to use the internet as a tool to share the beliefs of the LDS Church.<ref>{{cite web|last=Russell |first=Elder M. |url=http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=72443645a2cba110VgnVCM100000176f620a____&vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD |title=Ensign Article - Sharing the Gospel Using the Internet |publisher=LDS.org |date=2007-12-15 |accessdate=2010-02-13}}</ref>  

In addition to publishing several articles through his blog, Shirts also maintains a [[YouTube]] Channel featuring over eight-hundred<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/user/TheBackyardProfessor |title=Kanaal van TheBackyardProfessor |publisher=YouTube |date= |accessdate=2010-02-13}}</ref> self-made videos on subjects relating to LDS apologetics, the [[Book of Mormon]], and various Near Eastern topics. Shirts is a strong critic of anti-Mormonism<ref>{{cite web|author=Russell C. McGregor, and Kerry A. Shirts |url=http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/review/?vol=11&num=1&id=310 |title=Letters to an Anti-Mormon - Russell C. McGregor, and Kerry A. Shirts - FARMS Review - Volume 11 - Issue 1 |publisher=Maxwellinstitute.byu.edu |date= |accessdate=2010-02-13}}</ref>  and has been published author for the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/authors/?authorID=276 |title=Viewing Author: Kerry A. Shirts |publisher=Maxwellinstitute.byu.edu |date= |accessdate=2010-02-13}}</ref>  Shirts is also a researcher for the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fairlds.org/Reviews/Rvw01011.html |title=Through the Maze of Anti-Mormonism: |publisher=Fairlds.org |date= |accessdate=2010-02-13}}</ref>

In addition to publishing several articles through his blog, Shirts also maintains a [[YouTube]] Channel featuring over eight-hundred<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/user/TheBackyardProfessor |title=Kanaal van TheBackyardProfessor |publisher=YouTube |date= |accessdate=2010-02-13}}</ref> self-made videos on subjects relating to LDS apologetics, the [[Book of Mormon]], and various Near Eastern topics. Shirts is a strong critic of anti-Mormonism<ref>{{cite web|author=Russell C. McGregor, and Kerry A. Shirts |url=http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/review/?vol=11&num=1&id=310 |title=Letters to an Anti-Mormon - Russell C. McGregor, and Kerry A. Shirts - FARMS Review - Volume 11 - Issue 1 |publisher=Maxwellinstitute.byu.edu |date= |accessdate=2010-02-13}}</ref>  and has been published author for the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/authors/?authorID=276 |title=Viewing Author: Kerry A. Shirts |publisher=Maxwellinstitute.byu.edu |date= |accessdate=2010-02-13}}</ref>  Shirts is also a researcher for the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fairlds.org/Reviews/Rvw01011.html |title=Through the Maze of Anti-Mormonism: |publisher=Fairlds.org |date= |accessdate=2010-02-13}}</ref>

== The Book of Abraham ==

== The Book of Abraham ==

== Reformed Egyptian ==

== Reformed Egyptian ==

Shirts is an advocate of Book of Mormon historicity<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.ida.net/graphics/shirtail/scimeter.htm |title=Scimeters in the Book of Mormon - a Nifty Touch! |publisher=.ida.net |date= |accessdate=2010-02-13}}</ref> and believes that Reformed Egyptian, as described in Mormon 9:32<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scriptures.lds.org/en/morm/9/32#32 |title=Mormon 9 |publisher=Scriptures.lds.org |date= |accessdate=2010-02-13}}</ref>  is validated through the comparison of the “caractors” of the Anthon transcript with the evolution of Egyptian hieroglyphic scripts to a proto-Semitic alphabet, paleo-Semitic, and eventually to [[Latin]] letters.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/user/TheBackyardProfessor#p/a/u/0/DURy5RNjUFc |title=Kanaal van TheBackyardProfessor |publisher=YouTube |date= |accessdate=2010-02-13}}</ref>

Shirts is an advocate of Book of Mormon historicity<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.ida.net/graphics/shirtail/scimeter.htm |title=Scimeters in the Book of Mormon - a Nifty Touch! |publisher=.ida.net |date= |accessdate=2010-02-13}}</ref> and believes that Reformed Egyptian, as described in Mormon 9:32<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scriptures.lds.org/en/morm/9/32#32 |title=Mormon 9 |publisher=Scriptures.lds.org |date= |accessdate=2010-02-13}}</ref>  is validated through the comparison of the “caractors” of the Anthon transcript with the evolution of Egyptian hieroglyphic scripts to a proto-Semitic alphabet, paleo-Semitic, and eventually to [[Latin]] letters.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/user/TheBackyardProfessor#p/a/u/0/DURy5RNjUFc |title=Kanaal van TheBackyardProfessor |publisher=YouTube |date= |accessdate=2010-02-13}}</ref>

== Criticism ==

== Criticism ==