Elder Gary E. Stevenson studying the Book of Mormon in his office.
The image is from his Facebook page, which I commend to you: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LDS.GaryEStevenson\/?fref=nf&pnref=story<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
The narrative of my ouster from FARMS or the Maxwell Institute by righteously indignant and justifiably outraged Church leaders in Salt Lake City \u2014 they had, so the tale goes, become disgusted with the way the organization was being\u00a0run and by the mean-spirited and dishonest pseudo-scholarship that was its primary product (and that I sponsored and, indeed, virtually embodied) \u2014 has become dogma in some quarters, despite its complete falsehood. \u00a0So I was amused today when the invaluable Stephen Smoot, now pursuing graduate studies at the University of Toronto, called the above photograph to my attention. \u00a0It\u2019s from the Facebook page of Elder Gary Stevenson, a member of\u00a0the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.<\/p>\n
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\u201cNotice what Elder Stevenson keeps on his bookshelves?\u201d Brother Smoot wrote, with tongue firmly in cheek. \u00a0\u201cBut I thought \u2018classic FARMS\u2019 was an embarrassment to the Church. \u00a0Isn\u2019t that why you were fired, Dan? \u00a0Can\u2019t believe an apostle would have that dreck in his library.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Incidentally, quite a number of years ago now, Elder Dallin H. Oaks \u2014 also of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles \u2014 showed me the substantial collection of FARMS\/Maxwell books that he<\/em> had in his<\/em> office.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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