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Volume 21, No. 4

Winter 1988

Contents

Articles/Essays

A Mormon Midrash?: LDS Creation Narratives Reconsidered

Anthony A. Hutchinson

Latter-day Saints, with other groups in the Judeo-Christian tradition, accept as scripture the stories of creation found in Genesis 1-3 but are unique in accepting as scripture three other parallel versions of the same stories. These include chapters in the books of Moses and Abraham brought forth by Joseph Smith,...

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How Do You Spell Relief? A Panel of Relief Society Presidents

Sharon Lee Swenson, Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, Catherine Stokes and K. Carpenter

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A Voice from the Past: The Benson Instructions for Parents

Lavina Fielding Anderson

1988: Lavina Fielding Anderson, “A Voice from the Past: The Benson Instructions for Parents,” Dialogue 21.4 (Winter 1988): 103 – 13. I must admit that the immediate reaction to the “Mothers” speech — largely negative in my immediate circle — caught me off guard. I was meeting with a group of women...

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Polygamy, Patrimony, and Prophecy: The Mormon Colonization of Cardston

John C. Lehr

Dialogue 21.4 (Winter 1990): 114–121
Lehr discussed the journey undertaken by Charles O. Card to move to Canada and preserve polygamy, before the First Manifesto during a time that members were being hunted down for for their religious beliefs.

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Fiction

The Bowhunter

Michael Fillerup

Jack slowed down, looking for a sign. Seeing none, he sped on down the highway, grumbling to himself. Dean could have given more specific directions — or better, first-hand instructions, not this friend-of-a-friend nonsense. It…

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Notes

The Case for the New Mormon History: Thomas G. Alexander and His Critics

M. Gerald Bradford

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Personal Voices

Doing Huebener

Margaret Blair Young

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The Man at the Chapel

Karin Anderson England

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Poetry

Failed Friendship

E. Victoria Grover-Swank

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Here’s the Church

Kathy Evans

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Reviews

Forgeries, Bombs and Salamanders: Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders by Linda Sillitoe and Allen D. Roberts

Mary Blanchard and Jeffery Ogden Johnson

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Joseph in an Alternate Universe: Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card

Sandra Ballif Straubhaar

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Honoring Arrington: New Views of Mormon History: Essays in Honor of Leonard J. Arrington

F. Ross Peterson

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A Celebration of Diversity: A Heritage of Faith: Talks Selected from BYU Women’s Conferences

Helen Beach Cannon

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