Barbara Higdon Lyon
BARBARA HIGDON, faculty emerita of Graceland University where she taught English for thirteen years, also served as Vice President for Academic Affairs for ten years, and as University President for eight. She has authored Good News for Today: A Handbook for Preaching Practice and Delivery and Committed to Peace. And she is a past president of the John Whitmer Historical Association and a former member of the Mormon History Association board. Her husband Bill served on the RLDS Council of Twelve for seventeen years. They have three grown children and five grandchildren.
Articles
The Reorganization in the Twentieth Century
On April 15, 1972 the Mormon History Association held a notable convention at Independence, Missouri. Some 130 members and friends of the Association visited historic Mormon sites and heard discourses from scholars representing both the…
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Dialogue 36.3 (Fall 2003): 99–193
On November 17,1985, many RLDS (now Community of Christ) congregations witnessed the sacrament of ordination to priesthood office.