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MORMON EXPERIENCE, SCHOLARSHIP, ISSUES, AND ART JUNE 1991 Volume 15:2 Issue 82 2 Our Readers .................... READERS’ FORUM FEATURES 13 Eugene England ................. PSALM: It Hurts to Think of You 17 Sheila Greeve Davaney ............ TRENDS IN FEMINIST THEOLOGY 23 .]anice Allred ....................DO YOU PREACH THE ORTHODOX RELIGION?: A PLACE FOR THEOLOGY IN MORMON COMMUNITY 34 Todd Compton ..................COUNTER-HIERARCHICAL REVELATION 42 Hodgson Van Wagoner ............ REFLECTIONS OF THE LOST AND FOUND 1989 Brown fiction contest 2nd place winner POETRY The poems in this issue were read by their authors at a session at Sunstone Symposium West. SUNSTONE (ISSN 0363-1370) is published by the Sunstone 11 Mary Blanchard ................. BEREFT Foundation, a non-profit corporation with no official connection to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 33 Karen Marguerite Moloney ......... THE TRUANT OFFICER RECALLS SWEET MAGGIE Articles represent the attitudes of the writers only and not 41 Margaret Rechif .................LE BONNE VAUX necessarily those of the editors or the LDS church. 46 R.A. Christmas .................CONVERSATION WITH A CANCER Manuscripts should be submitted on floppy diskettes, IBM PC compatible and written with Word Perfect format. Manuscripts 46 Kathryn R. Ashworth ............. BETHANY may also be double-spaced typewmten. Submissions should 51 Margaret Rechif .................IF EARTH WERE A WOMAN not exceed nine thousand words and must be accompanied by 52 LiMa Sillitoe ...................OCTOBER SHOOT a signed cover letter giving permission for the manuscript to be filed in the Sunstone Collection at the University of Utah COLUMNS Marriott Library Archives (all literary rights are retained by the author). Unsolicited manuscripts will not be returned; authors 12 Daniel H. 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Was I on that proverbial "high PEGGY FLETCHER 1978-1986 IT SHOULD BE clearly understood by road to apostasy"? But then why were my Publisher Editor the readers of SUNSTONE magazine that the deepest prayers answered so miraculously, so DANIEL H. RECTOR ELBERT EUGENE PECK talks by Eider Boyd K. Packer ("Let Them often? Why did Church members regularly :~ocutive Secretary Associate Editor Govern Themselves") and by Elder Ronald E. approach me and say: "Your testimony RYAN JENTZSCH KRISTOPHERJON MAGNUSSON Poelman ("The Gospel and The Church") mirrored the feelings in my soul today"? If I Contributing Editor Production Manager were printed in the October 1990 5~NSTONE were so bad, where did I get the strength and MARTI DICKEY ESPLIN ttlNCKI_EY LISOTA-JONES magazine (14:5) without the permission of love to teach and baptize a dozen friends in Advisory Editorial Boa~fl The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day the previous four years? Why was I always PATRICK BAGLEY, BRIAN BEAN, T.E. BEHREND: fiction M. SHAYNE BELL: poetry;JAY S. BYBEE Saints. The Church wishes to avoid any im- willing to home teach six or eight inactives? DENNIS CLARK: poetry reviews, CONNIE DISNEY plied endorsement of any private business or Going into that meeting, to quote Jim MICt tAEL HARWARD, DANIEL MARYON PEGGY FLETCHER STACK, LYNNE KANAVEL VgttlTESIDES publication. In addition, the Church wants Croce, "I had begun to doubt all the things Contributing Columnists to protect the copyright ownership of writ- that were me." And yet, from deep within I ORSON SCOTT CARD, DORICE WILLIAMS ELLIOTT ings and other creative works created or cried out as Martin Luther: "Here I stand; I MICHAEl_ HICKS, DAVID KNOWLTON, MARYBETH RAYNES ROBERT REES, PETER SORENSEN published by the Church. cannot do otherwise:, so help me God!" COPYRIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS OFFICE I got to make my complete presentation. Cartoonists CALVIN GRONDAHL, PAT BAGLEY THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST Then we talked for an hour. That is, I talked; KIRK ANDERSON, KENT CHRISTENSEN, KEN CRITCHFIELD OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS my Brethren listened. My pain kept coming DANA JACQUES, STEWE KROPP, BRIAN KUBARYCZ, LEGUME CARL McBRAYER, ROBERT MURRAY, i~ S. MUELLER out; flashes of anger threatened the spirit. But BRAD VELEY, RYAN S. WAYMENT LOCKED OUT I was largely able to maintain my composure. Volunteers Finally, my stake president looked straight at PENNY AI_LEN, CARI_ENE GEORGE-McMILLEN BARBARA HAUGSOEN, TERRY TILTON, ROBERT VERNON IN A VERY real sense, I have been inside me, his eyes filled with tears. "Brother Hoefelmann, if you say these things hap- US. Correspondents the Church locked out. A year ago my STAN CHRISTENSEN, Cambridge, Ma relationship to the Church hung in the bal- pened to you, then I believe you." NANCY HARWARD, Neward, De. jACK ~ RENEE CARLSON, Potomac, Md. ance. For over sixty days, I had labored on a A million pounds lifted from me. I love ALICE ALLRED POTTMYER, Arlington, Va. document through which I was making a the Church so much. I love the gospel. I love NEAL & REBECCA CHANDLER, Shaker Heights, Oh. JONATHAN & COLLEEN THOMAS, Chicago most sincere effort to purify myself, to separ- the Lord. Then I felt the encircling love of my KARL SANDBERG, St.Paul;JOHN DURHAM PETERS, Iowa City ate my personal problems and challenges leaders. And I knew that if they ever again STEVE MAYFIELD, Denver; ROB PRIDDIS, Salt Lake City JOHN COX, Winnemucca, Nv; ERIN SILVA, San Diego from those I felt stemmed from the counter- had questions or doubts about what I said or JOHN ~JANET TARJAN, Bakersfield, Ca. productive emphasis in Church administra- did, they would call me in directly and com- IRENE BATES, Pacific Palisades; KAREN MOLONEY, Los Angeles T. EUGENE SHOEMAKER, Sacramento; BONNIE BOBET, Berkeley tion. I came to understand its purpose: It municate their concerns to my face. A year has now passed. For eleven International Correspondents would become a formal presentation to my MARJORIE NEWTON, Australia; WILFRIED DEC()(), Belgium stake presidency. months I’ve served as a counselor to the JAMES FIELD, WERNER H HOCK, Germany WILLIAM P COLLINS, Israel; PAUL CARPENTER, Mexico My willingness to associate with the so- elder’s quorum president. My strengths and IAN BARBER, New Zealand cial!corporate Church would depend on the talents are recognized and called upon as I outcome of the meeting. I was very fright- visit the homes of each member. THE SUNSTONE FOUNDATION ened. I needed four serious issues addressed: I stand amazed that while I labored on my Board of Trustees 1. Accusations that I do not support Church tender Leaves of Grass, Elder Packer was KATHERINE BOSWELL, KENT FROGLEY LISA BOLIN HAWKINS, EDWARD L. KIMBALL, GLEN LAMBERT leaders; 2. The corollary idea that I have not preparing a presentation of his own on de- ROBYN KN1BBE, MARY ANN MORGAN,J BONNER R1TCHIE programming the Church and stressing indi- DANIEl_ H. RECTOR, ELBERT EUGENE PECK received support from