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Issue 131 March 2004

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Topics included in this issue:
Abuse, Agency, archaeology, Art, Belief, Blessing, Book of Mormon, BYU, Christian principles, Church Activity, Church Discipline, Church Organization, Community, Contemporary Mormonism, Cornucopia, Critical Scholarship, Cultural Studies, Death, Demographics, Disability, Doctrinal History, Economics, Education, Environment, Faith, Faith and Scholarship, Family, Film, Genealogy, General Authorities, Health, History, Homosexuality, Humor, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, Law, Life Crisis, Literature, Marriage, Mormon Culture, Mormon History, Mormon Studies, Music, Native American, New Testament, Other Religions, Parenting, Personal Essay, Personal Journey, Politics, Polygamy, Psychobiography, Psychology, Revelation, Review, Science and Religion, Scripture studies, Sexism, Spirituality, Sunstone, Temples, Testimony, Theology, Truth, United Order/consecration, Violence, Women, Word of Wisdom, Work, Youth, Zion,
Page Category Author Title
58 Column Thomas W. Murphy Turning the Time Over to . . . : Inventing Galileo
62 Column D. Jeff Burton Braving the Borderlands . . . : Personal Experiences in the Borderlands
80 Column Hugh W. Nibley An Olive Leaf: Breaking through to Zion
6 Cornucopia James N. Kimball Twenty Years Ago in Sunstone: It Doesn’t Apply at This Altitude; Peculiar People--Poverty and Income in Colorado City & Hildale
8 Cornucopia Alison Takenaka Margin Notes: Fear and Trembling the Mormon Way; Mormon Media Image--Eating One's Way to Eternal Damnation
4 Editorial Dan Wotherspoon FROM THE EDITOR: On Being 'Investigator-Safe'
10 Feature Jana Bouck Remy Pose: 2004 Eugene England Personal Essay Contest, First Place Winner
12 Feature H. Parker Blount A Place Called Little Utah
19 Feature Reframing the Book of Mormon
20 Feature Brent Lee Metcalfe Reinventing Lamanite Identity
26 Feature Trent D Stephens Now What?
30 Feature Ralph A. Olsen A Malay Site for Book of Mormon Events
35 Feature C. Jess Groesbeck The Book of Mormon As a Symbolic History: A New Perspective on Its Place in History and Religion
46 Feature Barry Laga Cultivating Identities: Reflections on Our Mormon Root Metaphors
54 Fiction Mari Jorgensen False Positive: 1999 Brookie & D.K. Brown Fiction Contest Moonstone Winner
66 Film Guide Robert A. Rees, Eric Samuelsen Unremitting Passion: The Passion of the Christ, directed by Mel Gibson
2 Letters to Editor YEA , YEA NAY , NAY
72 News NEWS: Church Leaders and Members Speak Out against Gay Marriage; Excommunicated Fundamentalists Fight Back; Church Says No to Guns in Chapels; Mormon Studies Controversy Erupts; and More
74 News UPDATE: With FLDS Shakeup, Polygamists Flee; Fight Evictions; Church Says No Guns in Chapel; Mormon Studies Controversy Erupts; BYU Blots Out Bare Bellybuttons; Illegals Can Have Temple Recommends; Billionaire Launches Brave New Way to Do Genealogy; MORE
11 Poetry Leonardo DellaRocca Cyclone of Voices
18 Poetry Michael Collins In the Dark, The World Ends at the Windshield
45 Poetry Victor W. Pearn, Anita Tanner Recipe from a Family File
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