Loretta L. Hefner

LORETTA L. HEFNER has her master's in history and is currently pursuing a Master of Public Administration degree at the University of Utah.

This Decade Was Different: Relief Society’s Social Services Department, 1919-1929

Articles/Essays – Volume 15, No. 3

For much of its history, the Relief Society has been primarily concerned with educating and providing compassionate service to its own members, carrying out instructions passed on from priesthood leaders, keeping its own organization running…

From Apostle to Apostate: The Personal Struggle of Amasa Mason Lyman

Articles/Essays – Volume 16, No. 1

The principles of the gospel are perfect,” President Brigham Young admonished his audience early in the summer of 1867, “but are the Apostles who teach it perfect?” Even though he provided an answer (“No, they…