“Mormonism is significantly better off because of his courage and integrity.”

Last updated on: June 18, 2015 at 10:40 am by Dan Peterson

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It was recently announced that M. Gerald Bradford is stepping down as director of BYU’s Maxwell Institute.

I was struck by a Facebook comment that John Dehlin made on the matter two days ago:

“Tons of respect to Gerald Bradford as he leaves the Maxwell Institute. Mormonism is significantly better off because of his courage and integrity. I can’t wait to see who gets this job!!!!!!”

And what is it that’s so much better?

Phillip Jenkins, a non-Mormon academic who has recently launched a series of online attacks on the Book of Mormon, can answer that question: He writes approvingly of the “subsuming” of FARMS into the “highly respectable Maxwell Institute.” And how has the Institute become “highly respectable” in Jenkins’s view? That’s easy. It no longer includes “literal-minded apologists.”

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