Almost exactly four years ago, while I was here in Jerusalem, I received an email removing me as editor of the FARMS Review (which had recently become the Mormon Studies Review). That email launched a process that, in short order, forced me altogether out of an organization to which I had given a substantial portion of my life for nearly a quarter of a century. It purged me from the Islamic Translation Series and the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative (METI), which I had conceived, founded, and led. Much more importantly, it effectively signaled the destruction of what many of us — writers, scholars, administrators, and donors — had worked for many years to create in and through the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) and its successor organization, the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship.
Today, a new director was announced for the Maxwell Institute, to replace the man who initiated the 2012 purge and who presided over the Institute’s subsequent “new direction” (as it was euphemistically termed).
I wish Spencer Fluhman all the best in his new role.
Posted from Jerusalem
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