About

Posted by owner on July 9, 2008

Hi

My name is Larry Richards. You’ll usually find me here, at my computer, writing. If you really want all the stuffy details of my life — education, degrees, the names of some of the 200 plus books I’ve published over the past 40 years, etc. — you can google me as Lawrence O. Richards. Not that you need to. You don’t even need to know that I’m 77, going on 30, though the picture probably gives my age away. Probably all you’ll want to know is why this blog on demons? Who cares about demons anyway…or even believes in them?

Although I’d written a book on the subject [Every Good and Evil Angel in the Bible, Nelson Publishers] I didn’t pay much attention to demons until a couple of years ago, when I started to write a series of six novels on The Invisible War taking place between angels and demons. My research showed how greatly demons are involved in our lives and our society. I’ve finished the six novels. The first to be published, The Blind Prophet, will be released early next year by Tate Publishing, with the other five following. But the growing involvement in our society in New Age practices, in the occult, in witchcraft, and even in Satanism, suggests there’s a general need for a biblical perspective on demons and their activities.

And so…DemonDope…the online site of The Center for the Study of Biblical Demonology.

What can you expect to find on DemonDope? All sorts of things. You’ll find…

• News items
• Studies on demon possession, exorcism, and other topics.
• A little humor now and then.
• Book reviews
• Reader contributed first person experiences
• An opportunity to ask questions.
• Reader comments
• Debates

Hopefully, DemonDope will be both interesting and revealing. And most of all, will provide a biblical perspective on the activities of the evil spiritual forces which, honest and truly, are among us. We certainly don’t want to be ignorant of what the New Testament calls “Satan’s devices.” And we
do want the confidence that comes from realizing that Satan and his hordes are defeated enemies, unable to resist the authority of Jesus Christ.