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00a_cover cmyk dark blue.qxp 9/29/2006 9:15 AM Page 2 MORMON EXPERIENCE SCHOLARSHIP ISSUES & ART “ANYTHANG SUNSTONESUNSTONE WILL HELP” by P. D. Mallamo (p.20) REFLECTIONS OF A PUBLIC DEFENDER by Ken Driggs (p.32) CHRIST IN HIS DISTRESSING DISGUISE by Marylee Mitcham (p.40) HEALTHY PARTNERS Brown fiction contest winner by Lewis Horne (p.44) SMOKE AND MIRRORS England essay contest winner by Stephen Carter (p.50) Chris Kemp and Frances Lee NN HIM HIM WAS WAS LIFE LIFE;; Menlove on ee andand thethe lifelife waswas thethe lightlight compassion in the face of ofof men. men. — — JJOHNOHN 1:41:4 suffering (p.14) II NEWS AND UPDATE FLDS leader arrested; Can a Mormon become president?; BYU controversies; and more! September 2006—$5.95 00b_inside cover.qxp 9/29/2006 9:16 AM Page 1 2006 NORTHWEST SUNSTONE SYMPOSIUM 20–21 OCTOBER at the home of Molly and Roy Bennion 1150 22nd Ave E Seattle, Washington Please visit www.sunstoneonline.com for more information Eugene England Memorial Personal Essay Contest Call for Entries THE SUNSTONE EDUCATION FOUNDATION invites 2. Each essay must be typed, double-spaced, on one writers to enter the 2007 Eugene England Memorial side of white paper and be stapled in the upper left Personal Essay Contest, made possible by the corner. All essays must be 3500 words or fewer. Eugene and Charlotte England Education Fund. The author’s name should not appear on any page In the spirit of Gene’s writings, entries should relate to of the essay. Latter-day Saint experience, theology, or worldview. Essays, without author identification, will be judged 3. Each entry must be accompanied by a cover letter by noted Mormon authors and professors of writing. that states the essay’s title and the author’s name, The winner(s) will be announced in SUNSTONE and address, and telephone number. Each cover letter at the 2006 Association for Mormon Letters must be signed and attest that the entry is the conference. Only the winners will be notified of the author’s work, that it has not been previously results. After the judging is complete, all non-winning published, that it is not currently being considered entrants will be free to submit their essays elsewhere. for publication elsewhere, will not be submitted to other forums until after the contest, and that, if the PRIZES: A total of $450 will be shared among the entry wins, SUNSTONE magazine has one-time, winning entries. first-publication rights. RULES: 1. Up to three entries may be submitted by a single For examples of past contest winners, see the May 2003, author. Four copies of each entry must be delivered July 2003, October 2003, March 2004, May 2004, July 2004, (or postmarked) to Sunstone by 30 JANUARY and May 2005 issues of SUNSTONE. The 2006 contest winner 2007. Entries will not be returned. A $5 fee must is in this issue (page 50). accompany each entry. 343 NORTH THIRD WEST SUNSTONE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84103–1215 01_toc.qxp 9/29/2006 9:34 AM Page 1 MORMON EXPERIENCE, SCHOLARSHIP, ISSUES, & ART SEPTEMBER 2006 Issue 142 FEATURES 20 P. D. Mallamo . “ANYTHANG WILL HELP”: CITIZENS, STREET PEOPLE, AND THE FAITHFUL 32 Ken Driggs. REFLECTIONS OF A PUBLIC DEFENDER 40 Marylee Mitcham . CHRIST IN HIS DISTRESSING DISGUISE 44 Lewis Horne . HEALTHY PARTNERS 2003 Brookie & D. K. Brown Fiction Contest Sunstone Winner 50 Stephen Carter . SMOKE AND MIRRORS 2006 Eugene England Memorial Personal Essay Contest First Place Winner SUNSTONE (ISSN 0363-1370) is published by The Sunstone POETRY Education Foundation, Inc., a non-profit corporation with no 16 Richard Shorten . BENCHMARK official ties to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Articles represent the opinions of the writers only. 19 Jerome L. McElroy. MADONNA SUNSTONE is indexed in the Index to Book Reviews in Religion 54 Ken Raines. FAMILY GATHERING and Religion Indexes: RIO/RIT/IBBR 1975–on CD-ROM. 57 Elva Lauter . SALAMANDER NIGHT Submissions may be on IBM-PC compatible computer discs 63 Christian Knoeller. GHOST STORIES (MS Word or WordPerfect format), or by e-mail attachment. 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The Dwindling Hope Bona fide student and missionary subscriptions are $10 less than the above rates. A $10 service charge will be deducted from NEWS AND UPDATE refund amount on cancelations. 71 . Fugitive FLDS Leader Captured in Nevada; Courts Printed by Issue Several Polygamy Rulings; Will Mitt’s Religion Hurt His Presidential Chances?; BYU Faculty Copyright © 2006, The Sunstone Education Foundation. All rights reserved. Controversies; and more! Printed in the United States of America. Cover: “THE DUMB MAN POSSESSED” by Gustave Doré 02-04_ letters.qxp 9/29/2006 9:31 AM Page 2 SUNSTONE YEA, YEA NAY, NAY us will lie if pressed to answer highly per- Founded in 1974 BACKSLIDER REVISITED SCOTT KENNEY 1974–1978 sonal and embarrassing questions. ALLEN D. ROBERTS 1978–1980 APPLAUD SUNSTONE’S DECISION TO Sexual morality in The Backslider takes a PEGGY FLETCHER 1978–1986 DANIEL H. RECTOR 1986–1991 I publish twentieth-anniversary reflections hilarious turn when Farley Chittenden de- LINDA JEAN STEPHENSON 1991–1992 ELBERT EUGENE PECK 1986–2001 on Levi Peterson’s The Backslider, and I en- scribes the unique method of repenting for Editor joyed Cherie Woodworth and Bruce past sins he has devised with his ex-prosti- DAN WOTHERSPOON Publisher Jorgensen’s essays in the April 2006 issue. tute plural wife, Gomer. While Farley is ludi- WILLIAM STANFORD When I reread The Backslider this sum- crous, the lives of the other polygamists in Associate Editor CAROL B. QUIST mer, I wondered once again why it hasn’t the novel are sad, even frightening. The self- Managing Editor found a larger non-Mormon audience. It’s a sacrificing plural wives bear firm testimony ALLEN HILL great read—believable characters trying to of the principle that makes their lives so diffi- Section Editors PHYLLIS BAKER, Fiction Contest be or convinced they are good Mormons, hu- cult. SCOT DENHALTER, Cybersaints ALAN AND VICKIE EASTMAN, Righteous Dominion mor (not all of it dark), sex and guilt, bigotry, With Warren Jeffs all over today’s head- ALLEN HILL, Touchstones polygamy, even blood atonement. Surely lines, polygamy is a hot topic and might be RICK JEPSON, Bounds and Conditions HUGO OLAIZ, News/Update members of other faiths who have their own the key to getting this novel out into the non- DIXIE PARTRIDGE, Poetry BOYD PETERSEN, Mormonism and politics spiritual struggles can relate to Frank LDS mainstream. Maybe Signature Books MARY ELLEN ROBERTSON, Women’s studies Windham’s endeavors to please the super- could talk the Big Love producers into writing MICHAEL SCHOENFELD, Sunstone Gallery DARRON SMITH, The Long-Promised Day? critical God he envisions. Farley, Gomer, Bertha, and Hanah into an ALISON TAKENAKA, Margin Notes The Backslider hasn’t yet found as broad episode, then reissue the novel with a cover BRAD AND CHERIE WOODWORTH, Book reviews Editorial Assistants an LDS audience as it deserves either. The photo of Farley’s plural family—including JOHN-CHARLES DUFFY, HUGO OLAIZ humor strikes close to home, and laughing at Gomer in full bloom? Recording/Digitizing Engineer MATT WRIGHT ourselves is generally harder than laughing at It may be trickier to build a broader LDS Contributing Columnists others.
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    INTERPRETER§ A Journal of Mormon Scripture Volume 7 2013 INTERPRETER§ A Journal of Mormon Scripture Volume 7 • 2013 The Interpreter Foundation Orem, Utah The Interpreter Foundation Chairman and President Vice Presidents Daniel C. Peterson Jeffrey M. Bradshaw Daniel Oswald Executive Board Kevin Christensen Board of Editors Brant A. Gardner David M. Calabro William J. Hamblin Alison V. P. Coutts Bryce M. Haymond Craig L. Foster Louis C. Midgley Taylor Halverson George L. Mitton Ralph C. Hancock Gregory L. Smith Cassandra S. Hedelius Tanya Spackman Benjamin L. McGuire Ted Vaggalis Tyler R. Moulton Mike Parker Contributing Editors Andrew C. Smith Robert S. Boylan Martin S. Tanner John M. Butler Bryan J. Thomas James E. Faulconer Gordon C. Thomasson Benjamin I. Huff John S. Thompson Jennifer C. Lane David J. Larsen Production Editor Donald W. Parry Timothy Guymon Ugo A. Perego Stephen D. Ricks Media and Technology G. Bruce Schaalje Bryce M. Haymond David R. Seely John A. Tvedtnes Sidney B. Unrau Stephen T. Whitlock Lynne Hilton Wilson Mark Alan Wright The Interpreter Foundation Editorial Consultants Linda Hunter Adams Tyson Briggs Raven Haymond Tanner Matthews Eric Naylor Don Norton Neal Rappleye Jared Riddick Stephen Owen Smoot Colby Townsend Kyle Tuttle Elizabeth Watkins Media Volunteers Scott Dunaway Brad Haymond James Jensen S. Hales Swift © 2013 The Interpreter Foundation. A nonprofit organization. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA.