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All payments must be in U.S. funds drawn on a U.S. INTERVIEWS bank. All international subscriptions will be sent via surface mail. Bona fide student and missionary subscriptions are $10 less than 64 . MAKING OURSELVES VISIBLE: A Conversation the above rates. A $10 service charge will be deducted from with Author Johnny Townsend refund amount on cancelations. All subscription prices subject to change without notice. 66 . FAITH BY PROXY: A Conversation with Author Brady Udall Printed by K and K Printing Copyright © 2010, The Sunstone Education Foundation Inc. NEWS AND UPDATE All rights reserved. 70 . Elder Packer makes waves, Church statement on Printed in the United States of America. immigration, Richard Van Wagoner dies. more . Front cover art by Paul Duane Back cover art by Jeanette Atwood 02-04_letters:02-04_letters.qxd 12/2/2010 11:20 PM Page 2 SUNSTONE YEA, YEA NAY, NAY REMEMBERING civil society. While I was writing Bennion’s biography, Laurie was a great help to me LAMBDA DELT in understanding his use of Max Weber’s sociology. Founded in 1974 N HER EXCELLENT tribute to a Linda Sillitoe was a valued friend, begin- Editors Emeritus SCOTT KENNEY 1974–1978 I beloved spiritual mentor, Laurie N. ning when Dialogue published her unfor- ALLEN D. ROBERTS 1978–1980 PEGGY FLETCHER 1978–1986 DiPadova-Stocks fails to mention the vital gettable poem, “Song of Creation,” on my ELBERT EUGENE PECK 1986–2001 role played by the Church co-ed fraternity, watch. She later acted as an interviewer for DAN WOTHERSPOON 2001-2008 Publishers Emeritus Lambda Delta Sigma, in the 40’s and 50’s, my Bennion biography. I tried to keep up DANIEL H. RECTOR 1986–1991 which Lowell Bennion founded. As an ap- with her many successes, and I loved going WILLIAM STANFORD 2000–2008 Editor pendage to the University of Utah’s to lunch with her and John. I look forward STEPHEN R. CARTER Institute of Religion led by Bennion and his to her posthumous books! Director of Outreach and Symposia MARY ELLEN ROBERTSON fabulous colleagues (T. Edgar Lyon, George MARY BRADFORD Associate Editor Boyd, Marion D. Hanks, and others), Leesburg, Virginia CAROL B. QUIST Section Editors Lamda Delta Sigma afforded social experi- PHYLLIS BAKER, Fiction Contest Coordinator ences and opportunities to serve that sur- DAN WOTHERSPOON, Touchstones, Cornucopia, An Olive Leaf POINT FOR POINT LISA TORCASSO DOWNING, Fiction passed those of even the elitist Greek clubs ALAN AND VICKIE EASTMAN, “Righteous Dominion” JAMES P. HARRIS, “A Place for Every Truth” that many of us could not afford or that OBERT A. REES’S “Rough Stone HUGO OLAIZ, News/Update would have passed us over—and offered RRoaring” (SUNSTONE June 2010) rou- DIXIE PARTRIDGE, Poetry DALLAS ROBBINS, “In the World” memorable spiritual enforcement as well. tinely presents incomplete information ALISON TAKENAKA, “Margin Notes” I’ve always contended that the combination and misidentifies or doesn’t identify where MICHAEL VINSON, “Scripture Notes” —Institute and Lambda Delt—saved liter- Beck’s critics stand politically. I’m also dis- Editorial Assistants ally thousands of young LDS students from appointed that Rees quoted Beck himself JOHN-CHARLES DUFFY, HUGO OLAIZ Contributing Columnists faltering in their faith over the then-so so little. D. JEFF BURTON, MICHAEL FARNWORTH prominent science vs. religion controversy, Rees notes that the late Senator Robert Cartoonists JEANETTE ATWOOD, CAMI THORNOCK.