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Issue 125
December 2002

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Topics included in this issue:
Agency, Art, Belief, Biography, Blessing, BYU, Censorship, Christian principles, Church Activity, Church Discipline, Church Organization, Communal Efforts, Community, Contemporary Mormonism, Counseling and Mental Health, Critical Scholarship, Cultural Studies, Cyberspace, Death, Demographics, Discipleship, Employment, Environment, Equality, Ethnic Studies, Faith, Family, Feminism, Fiction, Film, Folklore, food, General Authorities, Hierarchy, Holidays, Honesty, Humanitarian Issues, Humor, In Memoriam, Internet, Legal History, Letters, Life Crisis, Media, Missionary Work, Mormon Culture, Mormon History, Mormon Studies, Mountain Meadows Massacre, Music, News, Ordinances, Other Religions, Parenting, People, Personal Essay, Poetry, Politics, Priesthood, Race/racism, Relief Society, Repentance/Forgiveness, Review, Science and Religion, Sexism, Sociology, Spirituality, Standards, Sunstone, Symposium, Teaching, Truth, Utah, Violence, War and peace, Women, Work, Youth,
Page Category Author Title
2 Letters to Editor YEA, YEA NAY, NAY
4 Editorial Dan Wotherspoon From the Editor: Saving the Whole World
7 Feature Gael D. Ulrich Guitars in Church?: 2002 Eugene England Memorial Personal Essay Contest Winner
12 Cornucopia Richard H. Cracroft CORNUCOPIA: The Naked Truth: A Widow from Scipio
14 Cornucopia Vicke Stewart Eastman CORNUCOPIA: Righteous Dominion: The Ward Christmas Wreath
15 Cornucopia Bruce Smith CORNUCOPIA: Called to Serve: A Father's Advice
15 Cornucopia CORNUCOPIA: Alternate Voices: Main Street Mania: Projects That Didn't Make It
18 Feature Boyd Peterson Truth Is Stranger Than Folklore: Hugh Nibley- The Man and the Legend
24 Feature Lavina Fielding Anderson Immediately Irresistible Ideas': Sunstone and Peggy Fletcher, 1980-1986
36 Feature Hugo Olaiz One Lord, One Faith, Many Chat Rooms: Mormons, The Internet, and the Complexities of Open Spaces
47 Feature Kevin Smith The Book of Orme or High Adventure on the Open Seas or A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again until Next Year
51 Poetry Stephen Frech Who'd Have Thought the Owl So Fierce?
52 Feature Todd Robert Petersen Redeeming the Dead: 1998 Brookie & D.K. Brown Fiction Contest Winner
55 Poetry Gerald R. Wheeler Cello Player
56 Column D. Jeff Burton Braving the Borderlands: Explorations In Openness
59 Poetry Anita Tanner What I Wanted from Snow
60 Column NONSTANDARD DEVIATIONS: A Lamentation for Peace
62 Review Robert H. Briggs Wrestling Brigham : Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows, by Will Bagley
66 Review Lisa Tensmeyer Hansen Coincidence with Potential: Consider the Butterfly: Transforming Your Life through Meaningful Coincidence, by Carol Lynn Pearson
67 Poetry Clayton Hansen Three Visits
68 Review Snja Farnsworth Getting 'Real'?: Women And Authority: Re-Emerging Mormon Feminism, ed. by Maxine Hanks
70 News Defeated in Court, Church Launches Vigorous Public Campaign for Temple Square Plaza; Several LDS Authors 'Called in' to Defend Challenging Writings; Church Disciplines Authors, Leads to Family Break-up
75 News UPDATE: General Conference Brings New Policies, Warning; LDS Women Surveyed, but No Answers Disclosed: People; Deseret Book Revises Content Standards for Books Sold; Utah Saints Hold Christmas Devotional--en Espanol; Celluloid Watch; to continue
80 Feature AN OLIVE LEAF: Gravely and Heroically Choose a Better Course of Life
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