Simon:
I enjoyed your article, too, and think that you're getting some valuable "peer review" here as well. If I may make a small critique, you wrote:
Dr. Southerton wrote:The FARMS Review was renamed the Mormon Studies Review in 2012 and in 2014, Daniel Peterson, who has been a divisive figure in LDS apologetics for decades, was fired as editor of the Review, and FARMS effectively disappeared. A group of disgruntled apologists, under the leadership of Peterson, now publish their polemics in the online journal Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship.
You may want to italicize the names of the journals. It may seem like a small detail (which it is), but you know who you're dealing with, right? Second, Peterson was not "fired" from the
Review in 2014--it happened in June of 2012. And if memory serves, the name of the journal was officially changed to
Mormon Studies Review in 2011. (It preceded Bradford's elimination of the "classic FARMS" Mopologists, and, indeed--If I recall correctly--it was something that they disagreed with and were angry about.)
One final point: I, personally, would not call 'Interpreter' an "online journal." It is basically a blog--that's how it began, and that is still essentially what it is, and how it ought to be defined. But I admit that's just my personal opinion.
"[I]f, while hoping that everybody else will be honest and so forth, I can personally prosper through unethical and immoral acts without being detected and without risk, why should I not?." --Daniel Peterson, 6/4/14