Layoffs at Scripture Central?

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Re: Layoffs at Scripture Central?

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Ego wrote:
Mon Jul 07, 2025 12:45 am
I Have Questions wrote:
Sun Jul 06, 2025 9:44 pm
Is it plausible to think that the Church, by virtue of the funding it provides to SC, is now exerting some influence?
Jasmin, who might have every reason to expose dirty secrets about Scripture Central since she was laid off by them, posted a video just three days ago where she denies that the Church was directly a sponsor of them.

She did mention that some influencers have been receiving money through third parties but did not indicate Scripture Central received funds in the same way as the example of this she gave. But let’s say it were so, what third party would it be done through and how would it be proven? Until then it seems rather speculative to me.

The video for reference:

https://youtu.be/ZbubJuLIGHk?si=1LNfLXrE1f2RVv5w
The video is about individual content creators and whether they get money from COJCOLDS. That's different than whether the various organizations do.
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Re: Layoffs at Scripture Central?

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Ego wrote:
Mon Jul 07, 2025 12:45 am
I Have Questions wrote:
Sun Jul 06, 2025 9:44 pm
Is it plausible to think that the Church, by virtue of the funding it provides to SC, is now exerting some influence?
Jasmin, who might have every reason to expose dirty secrets about Scripture Central since she was laid off by them, posted a video just three days ago where she denies that the Church was directly a sponsor of them.

She did mention that some influencers have been receiving money through third parties but did not indicate Scripture Central received funds in the same way as the example of this she gave. But let’s say it were so, what third party would it be done through and how would it be proven? Until then it seems rather speculative to me.

The video for reference:

https://youtu.be/ZbubJuLIGHk?si=1LNfLXrE1f2RVv5w
Jasmin isn't credible.
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Re: Layoffs at Scripture Central?

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Alphus and Omegus wrote:
Mon Jul 07, 2025 4:52 pm
Ego wrote:
Mon Jul 07, 2025 12:45 am
Jasmin, who might have every reason to expose dirty secrets about Scripture Central since she was laid off by them, posted a video just three days ago where she denies that the Church was directly a sponsor of them.

She did mention that some influencers have been receiving money through third parties but did not indicate Scripture Central received funds in the same way as the example of this she gave. But let’s say it were so, what third party would it be done through and how would it be proven? Until then it seems rather speculative to me.

The video for reference:

https://youtu.be/ZbubJuLIGHk?si=1LNfLXrE1f2RVv5w
The video is about individual content creators and whether they get money from COJCOLDS. That's different than whether the various organizations do.
For a few minutes of the video she specifically talked about the various non-profit organizations and mentioned explicitly Scripture Central not being backed by the Church. This was to give history and context for the rest of her message about individual content creators which is a new phenomenon.
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Re: Layoffs at Scripture Central?

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Everybody Wang Chung wrote:
Thu Jul 03, 2025 5:37 pm
It looks like Robert Boylan parted ways with Scripture Central in order to pursue his other passions.


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Unfortunately, this seems like a parody account. I highly doubt Boylan would roast himself by saying he is going to pursue his passion of making gofundme pages LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! He takes himself much to seriously.
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Re: Layoffs at Scripture Central?

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Ego wrote:
Mon Jul 07, 2025 12:45 am
I Have Questions wrote:
Sun Jul 06, 2025 9:44 pm
Is it plausible to think that the Church, by virtue of the funding it provides to SC, is now exerting some influence?
Jasmin, who might have every reason to expose dirty secrets about Scripture Central since she was laid off by them, posted a video just three days ago where she denies that the Church was directly a sponsor of them.

She did mention that some influencers have been receiving money through third parties but did not indicate Scripture Central received funds in the same way as the example of this she gave. But let’s say it were so, what third party would it be done through and how would it be proven? Until then it seems rather speculative to me.

The video for reference:

https://youtu.be/ZbubJuLIGHk?si=1LNfLXrE1f2RVv5w
I am confident that the LDS Church makes sure in various ways that the apologetic effort remains funded. I don't think there is anything wrong with that, by the way. I don't fully understand why the Church does not explicitly own up to its financial support for apologetics, since the matter is pretty practical. Criticism of the Church harms the Church and, as the leaders believe, the members of the Church. It is altogether in the Church's natural interest and certainly part of its responsibility to protect itself and its members. We know by their own reporting that people in the Maxwell Institute on BYU campus were soliciting donations to the Institute. If you have employees of BYU seeking donations from members to support apologetics, then I would say you have Church-funded apologetics, as the BYU folk working in the NAMI were ultimately in the Church's employ.

It's a non-issue. I don't see why it continues to be a contested thing when it is an obvious fact, but I have participated in conversations where apologists took serious issue with it. I find the denialism bizarre.
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Re: Layoffs at Scripture Central?

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Ego wrote:
Tue Jul 08, 2025 3:28 pm
For a few minutes of the video she specifically talked about the various non-profit organizations and mentioned explicitly Scripture Central not being backed by the Church. This was to give history and context for the rest of her message about individual content creators which is a new phenomenon.
In my view, such protestations rely on legalistic technicalities, and they evaporate on closer examination.

I was at one time pretty close to a professor working at BYU. His spouse worked for a BYU Foundation that regularly sought money from members of the Church to do various things. I am sure that everyone involved would say that these efforts came about solely through the generosity of the members, but does that withstand scrutiny? At the very least, it is not the whole story. Somewhere in all of this the LDS Church is making its members covenant to give everything to the Kingdom of God. Or, one might say, God is. The Kingdom of God is explicitly identified with the LDS Church. It simply is.

Does the Church not make these efforts happen? Of course it does! Why the reticence to acknowledge the crucial role the LDS Church plays, including the seeding money that pays employees to seek donations from members, in funding these efforts? It is as though one wanted to argue that the LDS Church has no money and pays for nothing because everything belongs to God and comes from the members. The Church just fades into the background, apparently never having existed as a legal entity that has finances and transacts business.
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