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! 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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.