Robert Loyd wrote:I've been out of the loop for for a while regarding the Maxwell institute, what positive changes have happened since Elder Holland spoke to them?
"the flighty Public Relations person"? That's not very nice at all. And to think: Hodges was relatively quiet about the fact that Midgley completely revised Hodges' FARMS essay so that it was more attack-oriented, thus proving that articles were deliberately changed in order to make them more aggressive and hostile. Meanwhile, who is the other person Midgley's referring to here--i.e., the one who "teaches English, with his wife, in Spanish Fork"?Louis Midgley wrote:Robert Lloyd:
Three things seem to me to be positive:
1. Terryl Givens, who is retired, and, with his wife, moved to Provo, and both of them volunteer at the Maxwell Institute. Just having Terryl
and his wife around has, I believe, tamed and thereby improved things.
2. They have had Grant Hardy do a Maxwell Institute version of the Book of Mormon. All of the scholarly apparatus is excellent. And they have published a twelve book series on the Book of Mormon. I have read the one by my former student, David F. Holland, who holds an endowed Chair at the Harvard Divinity School. His book is on Moroni, and I am drafting a review. And Terryl Givens did another one that I have read carefully. We have reviewed more or less favorably several others in this series.
3. One of those who was deeply involved in the original meld-down--that is, that disgusting plot to give Professor Peterson the boot, suddenly "resigned" and now teaches English, with his wife, in Spanish Fork. Blair Dee Hodges, the flighty Public Relations person, also suddenly resigned and found some employment closer to his home somewhere in Salt Lake County, where he will not be opining about the faith of the Saints. That leaves only D. Morgan Davis of those who plotted the coup. He is still a highly paid Senior Research Fellow who was one of 21 different "editors" involved in the publication of those 12 books on the Book of Mormon. I am actually pleased that J. Spencer Fluhman, Phillip L. Barlow, D. Morgan Davis and Blair D. Hodges were merely "editors" of the series of twelve books on portions of the Book of Mormon, and that they got others to actually write those books. Sometimes less is actually more--and better.
Regardless, the commentator knows as "Defund the Police" has objections to what Midgley is doing:
And Nathan Whilk immediately chimes in:Defund the Police wrote:Good grief Louis. How old are you again? Your post reads like a jealous school girl’s diary. Do you really think this kind of post is appropriate? This people you are publicly attacking are in good standing with the Church. And, even if they weren’t, this behavior is beyond disgusting.
Huh. That's interesting. Does anyone have a link to this?Nathan Whilk wrote:Please comment on the appropriateness of Blair Hodges calling Nathaniel Givens' article " ill-conceived thinly veiled white supremacy".
Midgley, in any event, continues to deny that he's done anything wrong:
Louis Midgley wrote:Who, I wonder, appointed someone who hides their true identity to be both an accuser and also the judge?