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CONTRIBUTORS Ross C. ANDERSON, former Democratic congressional nominee for Utah, is a Salt Lake City, Utah, trial lawyer and community activist. He has served as a volunteer with Common Cause of Utah, Planned Parenthood Association of Utah, American Civil Liberties Union, Guadalupe Schools, Corrections Education Advisory Council, and Citizens for Penal Reform. R. A CHRISTMAS'S poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Western Humanities Review, Sunstone, and elsewhere. He lives and works in Utah County. MERRILL COOK currently represents Utah's Second Congressional District. BRIAN EVENSON teaches creative writing at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater and is the author of Altmann 's Tongue. His new novel, Father of Lies, is forthcoming. STANTON HARRIS HALL lives in Seattle, Washington. DAVID KNOWLTON, author of numerous articles on Mormonism, is an an- thropologist and independent scholar. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. ADDIE LACOE is an Ada Comstock Scholar at Smith College, Northamp- ton, Massachusetts. ROGER D. LAUNIUS, chief historian for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Washington, D.C., is the author of Joseph Smith III: Pragmatic Prophet. He lives in Crofton, Maryland. JOHN P. MEIER is Professor of New Testament in the Department of Bibli- cal Studies, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. He re- ceived his License (Master's) in theology at the Gregorian University in Rome and his doctorate in sacred scriptures at the Biblical Institute in Rome. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including vol- umes one and two of a trilogy on the historical Jesus entitled A Marginal Jew. CASUALENE MEYER received an M.A. degree from Brigham Young Univer- sity, Provo, Utah, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern Mississippi. She lives in Purvis, Mississippi, with her husband and son. SATYAM S. MOORTY is Professor of English at Southern Utah University in Cedar City. He was a Senior Fulbright Lecturer at Sanaa University, Re- public of Yemen, from 1989 to 1990. His poems have appeared in Etudes, Cafe Bellas Artes, Tailwind, Dialogue & Alliance, Weber Studies, Earthshine, Journal of Indian Writing in English, The Poet's Page, a n d elsewhere. J. TODD ORMSBEE graduated from Brigham Young University, Provo, 184 Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought Utah, in 1994 and is currently a Ph.D. student in American studies at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. DAVID G. PACE lives with his wife, Cheryl, in Brooklyn, New York, where he is a flight attendant for Delta Air Lines. He was a theater critic for ten years in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is the author of three plays. "After the (Second) Fall: A Personal Journey toward Ethnic Mormonism" was origi- nally delivered at the Sunday Gathering, 21 August 1994, held in the First Unitarian Church, Salt Lake City. BOYD PETERSEN is currently preparing a biography of Hugh Nibley as well as a collection of Nibley's personal papers and correspondence. He teaches English and the humanities at Utah Valley State College in Orem, Utah. KAREN ROSENBAUM has taught close to 6,000 students and read more than 30,000 student essays, stories, and poems. In between community college terms, she writes short fiction and personal essays. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area. TESSA MEYER SANTIAGO teaches English part time at Brigham Young Uni- versity, Provo, Utah. She notes that "Drinking Blue Milk" was written in 1992 and that since then "God has been more than generous." LINDA SILLITOE is the author of eight books, including Friendly Fire: The ACLU in Utah, Secrets Keep (a novel), Crazy for Living (a collection of poetry), and a history of Salt Lake County. She is currently writing a book based on a civil lawsuit tried in Salt Lake County. She lives in Meza, Arizona. SARAH L. 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