Yahoo Bot wrote:Yer correct. Wheras I enjoyed old FARMS Review I could not see it continuing before the conservative elements pulled the plug. I am surprised that there has been so much venom about it. People I have admired have fallen a few notches. I see efforts to injure BYU and the church.
I once told my grandfather who was a BYU President for one year that I was interested in getting a degree in history with an emphasis in church history. He was not the type to take strong positions but he took a strong position with me. It was not BYU's mission to mint scholars in religion or church history. Just CES educators. He told me to stay out. And so I knew later that what FARMS ended up being would not likely have church support although for a time it seemed it did. Now I know it does not, and when Smith issued his paper he must have known that it might not be met with smiling faces at COB.
Well, now the Interpreter can push ahead without the strictures of an academic environment. If Peterson & Co. could get donations for FARMS, they should be able to get donations for the Interpreter Foundation. I can understand how vexing it is to lose the resources that large donations of the past brought to FARMS and folded into new purposes in the Maxwell Institute. Hamblin was definitely prescient when he feared getting pulled into the university. Had they not been located so close to the edge of campus, this might not have gone down as it did. Just a few blocks south, and the whole debacle may not have happened. That must really burn.
Hamblin and Peterson knew there was something to worry about in all of this, and ultimately they were right.