DO YOU STILL BELIEVE in MAGIC? WHY the SIXTIES GENERATION IS LOSING FAITH 33 Clayne W Robison a WEB of ILLUMINATING MOMENTS 23 Dennis Clark
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Do You STILLBELIEVE IN MAGIC? WHY THE SIXTIES GENERATION IS LOSING FAITfI J. FREDERIC VOROS, JR M orwlonW~flenpast and present I I Windows on the Sea and Other Stories Linda Sillitoe I In these prize-winningshort stories, Linda Sillitoe chronicles the lives of contemporarywomen in conflict with well-meaning but ultimately unempathetic men, especially local church leaders whose remedy for emotional trouble is too often a priesthood blessing and an admonition to sin no more. "These absorbing glimpses into changing Mormon lives nag at the mind and linger. They have their own special time and place and the Utah sense of forever." -- Virginia Sorenson, author, Miracles on Maple Hill "Among Sillitoe's characters are sufferers, survivors,and experimenters. No one else writing in the Mormon tradition teaches us so intensely, so emphatically, that women think and feel differently from men." -- Led Peterson, author, The Backslider "Some of Linda Sillitoe's stories open wounds, some cauterize, and some help heal." -- Eugene England, author, Dialogues With Myself Paper. 150 pages. $9.95; Letters from Exile The Correspondence of Martha Hughes Cannon, 1886-1888 Constance Lieber and John Sillito Martha Hughes Cannon, a University of Michigan educated physician, suffragist, and state senator, was the polygamous wife of Angus Cannon, a ranking Mormon church official. In 1886, Martha, twenty- three years Angus's junior, fled with her baby daughter to England to escape federal prosecution. Mattie's spirited, articulate letters over the next two years shed surprising light on the day-to-day reality of polygamy and outlined her jealousy of Angus's other wives, her unfulfilled passion while away from him, and her resentment at having to lie about her identity to escape detection and prison. Cloth. 350 pages. Limited to 500 copies. $60.00. Martha Hughes Cannon MORMON EXPERIENCE, SCHOLARSHIP, ISSUES, AND ART August 1989 Volume 13:4 Issue 72 2 Our Readers . READERS FORUM FEATURES 5 Nola Wallace . A PSALM 10 David Knowlton MlSSIONARlES AND TERROR: THE ASSASSINATION OF TWO ELDERS IN BOLIVIA ,, J. Fredenc Voros, 1, DO YOU STILL BELIEVE IN MAGIC? WHY THE SIXTIES GENERATION IS LOSING FAITH 33 Clayne W Robison A WEB OF ILLUMINATING MOMENTS 23 Dennis Clark . FANTASY AS A RESPONSE TO THE WORLD Mormon Poetry: Part Four Si~kileh~(ISSS 03(>3-13713)IS puhl~slicclhy lllc 24 Rob Hollis Miller . POEM: mythical bird Su~i\ronci-l~uncl~~t~on. .I ~ioii-prolir col-liol.lrlon 25 Linda Sillitoe . POEM: The King's Taster \i.ltIi 110 oll~eulionnccrlon to Ilic Cliu~iliol lciili (:h~isi 01 Li~rcr-i1.1).S,ilnc t\rr~ilei Icprcicnr rlic 26 Robert A. Rees . POEM: Salamander .~rrli~iclciol rlic \VI-I~CISiinly 'lnd nor ncccii.irlly rIio,c nl tllc ed11o15ill- rlic IDS church 28 Orson Scott Card POEM: Prentice Alvin and the No-good Plow 7 Timothy Liu . POEM: The Body of Christ Xlanuic~~p~~~Iioiilcl lhe iihrn~rte~ltin lloppy dlil,- crres I13L1 PC ioln[~~tiblednil \\lliren \\it11 \\ihrd 37 Loretta Randall Sharp POEM: Watch~ngl2N I'CIICCI I0r1ii.11 M~~IILI~C~IPISII~~I)'JISC~ be ~10~1hlt- COLUMNS ip.i~cci tyl>c\\,rltren Suhin~~ili~ni~lioulcl lrot chcccd nlnc ihiius,~~iilwords dnd muir he ~ieiomp~in~ecl 6 Elbert Eugene Peck . FROM THE EDITOR lhy .I ilfiiicd cover lcrwr glir1ng ~XUI~I~SICI~lor thc Ambivalent and Ambiguous ~~i,~nuicl-il>rro lhc lilcd 111 rhc iiinitunc ('ollcct~on .it rlie Unl\,crsily ol Ut'ih hl.l~~lottLII,I,II) h~ch~\ei TURNING THE TIME OVER TO. (.~ll II~CI-JI-) ngliti ~rcrewind 11) rlic .~urIiu~) Reflections on Xn Address to Mothers in Zion" I!niolicltcd m.inuxliprs ii.111 1101 he Icriiinccl. 38 Peter J. Sorensen LIGHTER MINDS ,~utliol-iii'lll Ihc not~licdioniciwng .riicptclncc The Conservatives and Liberals At It Again ir~~liinmr) days 39 Mane Cornwall ANOTHER VOICE SUSSlOKl. IS ~nrcrcircdIn leatu~c,inel ioluliln Voice and Loyalty leligili cirt~~le.;~clc\.inr w ~li~rrnoni~mIron1 .I v.i~lc~!01 p~spec~~\~ci.110~5SLO~" .I~OLIL REVIEWS Ili~rnioni,in~l rlic 1LIF ihurcli ale ,lIso dcs~rccl 41 Klaus 1. Hansen ARRINGTON'S HISTORIANS Scnil ,111 con-csponilcnce and in,lnuiii~prire, New Views of Mormon Histoty: A Collect~onof Essays in Honor of Leonard J. Amngton ed~tedby Davis Bitton and Maureen Ursenbach Beecher 44 Stan Christensen SIXTY YEARS OF INSIGHT Do Justly and Love Mercy by Lowell Bennion The Best of Lowell Bennion: Selected Writings edited by Eugene England United States Subserlpt~onsto SUNSTONE are $32 fdr cydve bsues tnternaoonai swkcnptlons are NEWS $49 (U5.f fot Canada and MexiCo and for surface APOSTLE BLAMES VIETNAM WAR DEFEAT to dl countries ml aher Alnnarl subscnpaons ON IMMORALITY are $62 for Europe and Smrh Amenca and 570 for ha. Afnca. Australla and the paLlAr LATTER-DAY SENTINEL FOLDS Bona fide studen! and mpalonary suhscnpuons are $10 less than the above rates PRESS COVERAGE OF LEES EXCOMMUNICATION AMBIVALENT THE LEE LETTERS Thls magaztne a pnnted on ac~d-freepaper SUNSTONE CALENDAR Capydt @ 1W & tbe Smf~nebundarton SUNSPOTS All nghrs resewed Pnnted tn the Unitd States of Amenca Cover Dana Jacques Founded odn 1975 SCOTT KENNEY 1975-1978 HOPEFUL LEE Many thanks go to Khomeini for promot- ALLEN D ROBERTS 1978-1980 ing the Satanic Vevses and helping a great book PEGGY FLETCHER 1978-1986 to get the publicity to sell 750,000 copies Publeher and ~CENTLY,I READ of the installation instead of 50,000. Banned books have always Foundahon President Editor been best sellers. DANIEL H RECTOR ELBERT EUGENE PECK of Rex E. Lee as the new president of Brigham Young University. It reminded me of an inci- When a Mormon like Card sides with the Assortate Ed~tor Productton Manager dent in my father's life. Ayatollah, he is envious of Muslims. Mormons MART1 DICKEY ESPLIN - JAN STUCK1 News Miss~onary At the time I was born (1933) my father cannot use an absence of separation of church HAND CAW HlNCKlrY JONES was teaching in the Church's seminary sys- and state to censor what they consider Adviwry Editorial Board tem in Richmond, Utah. Shortly thereafter he blasphemy, but Khomeini can. Freedom of PATRICK BAGLEY. BRIAN BEAN T.E. BEHREND, fict~on,JAY S. BYBEE began a Ph.D. program at the University of speech is the point and Card does not miss DENNIS CLARK. poetry. CATHY COOK, CONNIE DISNEY Chicago sponsored in part by the Church. the point, he would just like to get around it. MICHAEL HAPWARD. DANIEL MARYON, reviews PEGGY FLETCHER STACK Sometime before completing his doctorate in Satanic Verses is well written and worth read- Contributing Colurnn~str the humanities he paid a visit to Elder John ing. It was not written for people like Card, ORSON SCOTT CARD. MARIE CORNWALL A. Widtsoe, then the apostle in charge of the but neither were the books of Vardis Fisher KlRA PRATT DAVIS. DORICE WILLIAMS ELLIOTT MARK GUSTAVSON. MICHAEL HICKS. MARYBETH RAYNES Church's education program. My father or Gore Vidal. ROBERT REES. PETER SORENSEN explained that he would soon complete his RICHARDMAX ANDREWS Cartwnlsts Salt Lake City, Utah CALVIN GRONDAHL, PAT BAGLEY studies and wanted to know what job oppor- DANA JACQUES. STEVE KROPP tunities would be available in the seminary Symposium Chairs program. While waiting outside Elder Widt- MOLLY BENNION. Seattle; STEVE ECCLES. Los Angeles DON GUSTAVSON & PAR RASMUSSON. Wash~ngron.D.C. soe's office afterwards, he was soon informed ZION? HONESTLY! TED IZATT. New York by an aide that he had no future in the - LYNNE KANAVEL WHITESIDES, Salt Lake C~ry church's education program. The reasons Volunleen -1'HANKS FOR publishing Hugh Nibley's PENNY ALLEN. BARBARA HAUGSOEN given were (1) he was from convert parents, "What is Zion: A Distant V~ew"(SUNSTONE MARC HANSEN, PATRICIA JONES. ALAN PETERSON (2) he was graduating from a university teach- 13:2). Nibley strikes forcefully to a matter I TERRY IILTON, ROBERT VERNON, TERESA WHITING ing liberal religious philosophies, and (3) he US. Correrpondentr have often pondered ever since my mission NANCY HARWARD, Newark, De married a descendent ofJohn D. Lee in 1937. in the Southem States, intensively In my JACK & RENEE CARISON. Potomac, hld. Rex Lee is a great, great-grandson of John ALICE ALLRED POITMYER. Arlington. Va graduate-student days at Berkeley, as a col- D. Lee. Dr. Lee's installation represents a posi- JEFF AND CATHY JARVIS. Richmond league of Nibley during the Great Depression, NEAL & REBECCA CHANDLER, Shaker Heights. Oh tive evolution in the Church's attitude toward as well as teaching economic history, labor JONATHAN & COLLEEN THOMAS. Chicago its membership. KARL SANDBERG. St Paul; JOHN DURHAM PETERS, Iowa City economics, and labor relations for years at KENT ROBERTS. Dallas; SHERMAN SMOOT, Awada. Co. PAULA. FURR Comell, all alongside my abiding interest in JEFFREY KELLER Idaho Falls: JOHN COX. Boise Friendswood, Texas CHARLES SGHMALZ. Burlev. Id.: RON PRIDDIS. Salt Lake Church historv. ERIN SILVA. San D~ego.JOHN &JANET TARJAN. Bakersfield What has happened to the concepts of the IRENE BATES, Pacific Palisades; KAREN MOLONEY. Los Angeles "Kingdom of God and "Zion"? ~ible~'sclear, T EUGENE SHOEMAKER. Sacramento; MICHAEL PALMER Hawail RUSHDIE DEFENDED BONNIE BOBET, Berkeley refreshing and challengiyg presentation lnkmationol Correspondents should alert members to the prominent theme PAUL CARPENTER, MARJORIE NEWTON. Australla WILFRIED DECOO. Belgium IT DOES NOT surprise me that Orson and objective sought during the first fifty years ROGER MORRISON, JAMES F REA, Canada Scott Card thinks the "Satanic Verses is a in Utah. One should not be too hopeful, JAMES FIELD, WERNER H.