The Disenfranchisement of the OMIDs
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 8:16 pm
FARMS was started up by Jack Welch & Co. back in the day. A grouping of LDS apologists was formalized. It published the FARMS Review.
In the 1990s, FARMS and the FARMS Review became part of BYU, at NAMIRS.
In recent years, the FARMS Review was renamed, Mormon Studies Review. OMID Daniel C Peterson remained the Review's editor, despite the name change.
In 2012, NAMIRS and the OMIDs (those at NAMIRS whose apologetic pedigree goes back as far as pre-NAMIRS FARMS) parted ways.
In 2012, the OMIDs began their online blog, Mormon Interpreter.
The OMIDs are soliciting donations for the online Interpreter.
The OMIDs are not publishing in the vein or in the name of "FARMS Review". It is not a hard copy print. It is not a subscription service.
It is not clear but I suspect that BYU/NAMIRS owns the legal rights to the name "FARMS Review" and to the back catalog, not only that published by NAMIRS but also that published by FARMS before there was NAMIRS. Otherwise, I think the OMIDs would have resurrected the title "FARMS Review" and resumed publishing their beloved periodical of screeds.
So, kicked out of the NAMIRS clubhouse, and not able to take with them the 'bat and ball' they brought when they joined, the OMIDs seem hapless and downtrodden.
Perhaps they are at stages of their lives and careers that they do not have the energy to begin FARMS II (and FARMS II Review), or something named like it. Maybe the contributors are not willing to fund the start up of such a venture.
For whatever reasons, it seems that the disenfranchisement of the OMIDs from an effective soapbox for pontificating their LDS apologetics has been successful.
In the 1990s, FARMS and the FARMS Review became part of BYU, at NAMIRS.
In recent years, the FARMS Review was renamed, Mormon Studies Review. OMID Daniel C Peterson remained the Review's editor, despite the name change.
In 2012, NAMIRS and the OMIDs (those at NAMIRS whose apologetic pedigree goes back as far as pre-NAMIRS FARMS) parted ways.
In 2012, the OMIDs began their online blog, Mormon Interpreter.
The OMIDs are soliciting donations for the online Interpreter.
The OMIDs are not publishing in the vein or in the name of "FARMS Review". It is not a hard copy print. It is not a subscription service.
It is not clear but I suspect that BYU/NAMIRS owns the legal rights to the name "FARMS Review" and to the back catalog, not only that published by NAMIRS but also that published by FARMS before there was NAMIRS. Otherwise, I think the OMIDs would have resurrected the title "FARMS Review" and resumed publishing their beloved periodical of screeds.
So, kicked out of the NAMIRS clubhouse, and not able to take with them the 'bat and ball' they brought when they joined, the OMIDs seem hapless and downtrodden.
Perhaps they are at stages of their lives and careers that they do not have the energy to begin FARMS II (and FARMS II Review), or something named like it. Maybe the contributors are not willing to fund the start up of such a venture.
For whatever reasons, it seems that the disenfranchisement of the OMIDs from an effective soapbox for pontificating their LDS apologetics has been successful.