From My Informant: Is DCP Finished as Editor of the Review?

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I can't help but see Dan's sacking as an indicator that Mr Oaks' purge of bad apologetics is really starting to bite. And that this is a progressive move in improving the work the institute does in being a resource for members with difficult questions.
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Drifting wrote:I can't help but see Dan's sacking as an indicator that Mr Oaks' purge of bad apologetics is really starting to bite. And that this is a progressive move in improving the work the institute does in being a resource for members with difficult questions.


Dan wasn't sacked; he resigned.

What does Oaks have to do with this? Are you saying the Oaks faction has now won a considerable victory over the Packer faction?

The Institute is supposed to translate the METI. How is Dan's removal as editor of the Review going to effect the METI?
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But what we need to do to properly affect this change in the Review is to ask someone else, someone working in the mainstream of Mormon studies, who has a comparable vision to my own for what it can accomplish, to edit the publication and devote whatever time it takes to make this happen.


It's a fake. Scratchy needs just a little something to justify his:

In effect, his multidecade "reign of terror" has come to an end. The Powers-that-Be at the Maxwell Institute have finally had enough of the polemics and smear campaigns, and thus DCP and Company are being kicked to the curb.


I think it highly unlikely that Bradford would be so insulting.
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harmony wrote:
Drifting wrote:I can't help but see Dan's sacking as an indicator that Mr Oaks' purge of bad apologetics is really starting to bite. And that this is a progressive move in improving the work the institute does in being a resource for members with difficult questions.


Dan wasn't sacked; he resigned.

Dan was summarily removed as editor of the Review against his will.

What else would you call it?
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bcspace wrote:
But what we need to do to properly affect this change in the Review is to ask someone else, someone working in the mainstream of Mormon studies, who has a comparable vision to my own for what it can accomplish, to edit the publication and devote whatever time it takes to make this happen.


It's a fake. Scratchy needs just a little something to justify his:

In effect, his multidecade "reign of terror" has come to an end. The Powers-that-Be at the Maxwell Institute have finally had enough of the polemics and smear campaigns, and thus DCP and Company are being kicked to the curb.


I think it highly unlikely that Bradford would be so insulting.

You don't seem to be paying attention here, my friend. If you are paying attention, then you are demonstrating very poor evidence evaluation and judgement skills.
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DrW wrote:You don't seem to be paying attention here, my friend. If you are paying attention, then you are demonstrating very poor evidence evaluation and judgement skills.


He is only applying the logic skills he he's developed while viewing the world through Mormon tinted goggles (similar to wearing beer goggles) where the world magically changes to fit your needs. The only difference is beer goggles wear off as you sober up.
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You don't seem to be paying attention here, my friend. If you are paying attention, then you are demonstrating very poor evidence evaluation and judgement skills.


So what authenticates the OP other than you think it sounds like Bradford?
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DrW wrote:
harmony wrote:Dan wasn't sacked; he resigned.

Dan was summarily removed as editor of the Review against his will.

What else would you call it?


Indeed a textbook case of "you can't fire me I quit!".
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harmony wrote:
Drifting wrote:I can't help but see Dan's sacking as an indicator that Mr Oaks' purge of bad apologetics is really starting to bite. And that this is a progressive move in improving the work the institute does in being a resource for members with difficult questions.


Dan wasn't sacked; he resigned.

What does Oaks have to do with this? Are you saying the Oaks faction has now won a considerable victory over the Packer faction?

The Institute is supposed to translate the METI. How is Dan's removal as editor of the Review going to effect the METI?


Harmony, do you think Dan's 'removal' is a good move or a bad move and why?
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On Jun 14, 2012, at 10:43 AM, [M. Gerald Bradford] <xxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx> wrote:

Dear Dan:

I trust all goes well with your travels. I was hoping to hear from you on the Review before you left. Given how far behind it is, we need to decide its future and address our breach of expectations with its subscribers. Our front office staff are even now soliciting subscription renewals for a periodical that is now two issues behind schedule. And I'm unwilling to publish 23:2 as it stands.

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Please let me hear from you in the next week or so. I’ll make the announcement sometime around the first of the month.

All the best,

Jerry


How many Geralds sign their name Jerry?

Don't Geralds usually go with Gerry?
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