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A white-dusted woman looks up from sifting circles of 
Yellow grain, and husks, and leaves. 
In the clicking speech of her people she calls, Ah hello. 
Dear God! Your two faces shine before me. 

Few men have had a greater impact on the cultural life of contemporary Utah than has Obert C. Tanner. Through countless philanthropic endeavors, he and his wife, Grace, have guaranteed a quality of life otherwise…

Mary B. ran 
the Deseret 
Milk Company, 

When I was a restless teenager growing up Mormon in a small southern California ward, it seemed that the only topic to which our unruly Sunday school class responded was the fate of the lost…

Hidden in drainage ditches alongside the tracks, men wait for the train. I know the men are there. I’ve seen the damp green nesting places they trample out in the thickest stands of rushes, cattails,…

Single male members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints face a number of difficult issues. With my impressions of President Ezra Taft Benson’s address at the April 1988 priesthood session of general…

I am a divorced father with two beautiful children. Married for eleven years, I have been divorced for ten. I continue to experience the joys and responsibilities of fatherhood, I consider myself a member in…

During its first 158 years, Mormonism, like any other religious system, has developed its own theological and ritual structure with its own built-in defensive mechanisms. A fundamental part of this defensive infrastructure is a series…