Julianna Gardner Berry

JULIANNA GARDNER BERRY, a native Northeasterner, lives in Maynard, Massachusetts, with her husband and four sons. She writes a humor column regularly for a suburban Boston newspaper and is pursuing a master's degree in children's literature.

Mormon Laundry List

Articles/Essays – Volume 39, No. 1

Mormons love telling each other what to do more than any group I know.

When we meet up together at that great regional conference in the sky and the Lord reviews our collective performance at keeping the commandments, I think that he, unlike most of us, will start with our strengths and congratulate us for observing, to a man [person] and to a fault, the injunction to “give your language to exhortation continually” (D&C 23:7).