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135 cover.qxp 1/18/2005 1:43 PM Page 2 MORMON EXPERIENCE SCHOLARSHIP ISSUES & ART SUNSTONESUNSTONE MORMONISM AS PRAXIS by Phyllis Barber, H. Parker Blount, John Dewey Remy, Jana Riess, and Holly Welker (p.16) KEEPING FAITH AND READING KAFKA and THE WALLS LEFT STANDING by Neal and Rebecca Chandler (p.42) ROCK, SQUEAK, WHEEZE, Brown fiction contest winner by David M. Clark (p.54) Blake T. Ostler on The Logical Structure of DNA Arguments against the Book of Mormon (p.70) Columns by Lorie Winder MORMON WOMEN’S Stromberg, Velincia Veljasevic, SEXUAL TRAINING IN THE Michael Nielsen, and D. Jeff Burton TWENTIETH CENTURY NEWS by Laura L. Bush, with a response Community of Christ president resigns; by Holly Welker LDS senator becomes top- ranking Democrat; and much more! (p. 73) December 2004—$5.95 ifc.qxp 1/18/2005 12:59 PM Page 1 The Collected Leonard J. Arrington Junius and Joseph Mormon History Lectures Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES, UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY ROBERT S. WICKS and FRED R. FOISTER LIBRARIES Wicks and Foister engage in a thorough reexamination of Joseph The ten lectures to date in the Leonard J. Smith’s 1844 presidential candidacy, its political context and Arrington Mormon History Lecture Series are implications, and its probable connection to his murder. While their here collected in one volume for the first time. work asserts controversial conclusions about what and who were behind Lectures by Leonard Arrington, Richard Bennett, that murder, its import extends further since it provides unprecedented, Claudia Bushman, Richard Bushman, Kenneth detailed portraits of political Mormonism, politics in 1844 Illinois and Godfrey, Howard Lamar, Ross Peterson, Jan Shipps, Laurel Thatcher the Midwest, the web of connections and personalities that linked the two, and the events of June 27. Ulrich, and Donald Worster. $29.95 cloth, 0-87421-598-6 296 pages, 5¾ x 8¾ $24.95 paper, 0-87421-608-7 $45.95 cloth, 0-87421-607-9 408 pages, 6 x 9, photos and maps The Mormon Vanguard Brigade of 1847 VOLUME 7 IN THE LIFE WRITINGS OF FRONTIER WOMEN SERIES Norton Jacob’s Record No Place to Call Home EDITED BY RONALD O. BARNEY The 1807–1857 Life Writings There are no historical events that have more iconic significance for of Caroline Barnes Crosby, the people of Utah than the trek of the vanguard company of Chronicler of Outlying Mormon Mormons west in 1847. Widely regarded as one of the most detailed and valuable eyewitness accounts, Norton Jacob's record tells the story Communities of Brigham Young’s pioneer company from the perspective of a rank EDITED BY EDWARD LEO LYMAN, and file member. SUSAN WARD PAYNE, and $22.95 paper, 0-87421-610-9 $44.95 cloth, 0-87421-609-5 360 pages, 6 x 9, photos and maps S. 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This is a remarkable book, and merits wide readership. —JEFFERY NEEDLE Association for Mormon Letters WWW.SIGNATUREBOOKS.COM 01_toc.qxp 1/18/2005 12:57 PM Page 1 MORMON EXPERIENCE, SCHOLARSHIP, ISSUES, & ART DECEMBER 2004 Issue 135 FEATURES MORMONISM AS PRAXIS 16 Holly Welker . INTRODUCTION 17 Phyllis Barber . THE PRACTICE OF SIMPLE FAITH 19 H. Parker Blount . WHY I READ THE SCRIPTURES 21 John Dewy Remy . A SKEPTIC’S PRACTICE OF PRAYER 23 Jana Riess . “MORE FULLY UNSPOTTED FROM THE WORLD”: Thoughts on Sabbath Keeping 25 Holly Welker . A JOURNAL WORTH KEEPING (WHETHER THE ANGELS QUOTE FROM ITORNOT) MORMON WOMEN’S SEXUAL TRAINING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY SUNSTONE (ISSN 0363-1370) is published by The Sunstone 28 Laura L. Bush. FROM BUNKERVILLE TO BABYLON: Juanita Brooks Education Foundation, Inc., a non-profit corporation with no and Phyllis Barber Tell the Story of Twentieth- official ties to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 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