Garth N. Jones
GARTH N. JONES is dean/professor emeritus of public policy and organizational theory, University of Alaska, Anchorage. He has spent nearly five decades in the study of developing regions, including the Pacific Basin, South and Southeast Asia, and Alaska. Having experienced intense poverty during his Utah boyhood, he has sought to alleviate it as a professional, both at home and abroad.
Living Room: A Personal Review/Essay
Articles/Essays – Volume 09, No. 3
In scholarly terms I cannot improve on Kenneth E. Bouldmg’s superb review of Population Resources and the Future (Dialogue, 8 [Autumn/Winter 1973], 159- 163). However, I feel that I can face the issue more squarely…
Read moreExpanding LDS Church Abroad: Old Realities Compounded
Articles/Essays – Volume 13, No. 1
In recent decades, the LDS Church has moved out of the security of the “ever lasting mountains” to fulfill its prophetic dream of becoming a worldwide organization. Each year 225 thousand or more Saints are added to the fold. Over seventy percent are converts, recruited by a veritable army of full- and part-time missionaries. As of 1979, the Church numbered over 4.2 million. At a 6.4 percent annual growth rate, it will double every eleven years or so.
Read moreSpreading the Gospel in Indonesia: Organizational Obstacles and Opportunities
Articles/Essays – Volume 15, No. 4
On 26 October 1969, Indonesia was “dedicated for the preaching of the Gospel by Elder Ezra Taft Benson.” The Church initiated its standard missionary program. Door-to-door tracting began in Jakarta on 20 January 1970.[1] Plans…
Read moreThe Ahmadis of Islam: A Mormon Encounter and Perspective
Articles/Essays – Volume 19, No. 2
As the Church moves into societies and culture never a significant part of its historical past, it will encounter new configurations of religion that it must understand to achieve its prophetic promise. Countries that have…
Read moreSpiritual Searching: The Church on Its International Mission
Articles/Essays – Volume 20, No. 2
Early in the 1950s, President David O. McKay took forthright steps to move the largely domestic church into the international world. Within months after assuming his presidency, he embarked on a series of world tours, much as Pope John Paul of today’s Catholic Church has done, visiting places and lands where the Church remained strong…
Read moreWho Came in Second?
Articles/Essays – Volume 21, No. 2
My late father-in-law, Anchor Luke Clegg, often told the following story at family gatherings: “My direct relative, and yours too, was the second convert in the British Isles. He would have been first, but he…
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