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Louis Midgley wrote:I am, however, pleased that I have managed to have my review of a really excellent book by my friend, John Gee, finally in print. And also to have some of the story of how his excellent book was unpublished by the BYU Administration told with most of the ugly details set out, My essay sets out some of the silly and disgusting things that the current BYU Administration allowed or facilitated when they unpublished Professor Gee's wonderful book entitled Saving Faith: How Families Protect, Sustain, and Encourage Faith, which is a genuinely faith supporting book that was published by the Religious Studies Center at BYU, in cooperation with Deseret Book Company, in 2020.

Doctor Scratch wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 14, 2023 1:12 am

A very interesting development:

Louis Midgley wrote:I am, however, pleased that I have managed to have my review of a really excellent book by my friend, John Gee, finally in print. And also to have some of the story of how his excellent book was unpublished by the BYU Administration told with most of the ugly details set out, My essay sets out some of the silly and disgusting things that the current BYU Administration allowed or facilitated when they unpublished Professor Gee's wonderful book entitled Saving Faith: How Families Protect, Sustain, and Encourage Faith, which is a genuinely faith supporting book that was published by the Religious Studies Center at BYU, in cooperation with Deseret Book Company, in 2020.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... 6207610302

Wow. This sounds pretty salacious. Has it actually been published, though? I only looked briefly, but was unable to find it at Interpreter…

Moksha wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 14, 2023 2:41 am

This covers some of the backstory: https://religionnews.com/2020/09/08/con ... -john-gee/

As Midgley points out, this was not about dressing up in ancient attire and walking around like a Reformed Egyptian. It was about a book that included much inflammatory misinformation, which as Dr Midgley says, "Should not trouble BYU in the least. If they can countenance apologetics they should have no problem with this book."