Missionaries
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Association of Mormon Letters Conference: Beyond Missionary Stories: Voicing the Transnational Mormon Experience
(author)A Swelling Tide: Nineteen-Year-Old Sister Missionaries in the Twenty-First Century
Courtney L. Rabada“It was not a self-consistent ideology but a movement—a tremor in the earth, a lift in the wind, a swelling tide . . . an exhilarating sense of discovery, a utopian hope that women might…
A Missionary Farewell
Justin GoodsonListen to the audio version of this piece here. A crowd of several thousand poured into the Provo Tabernacle. They filled the wooden pews, the kind that are never quite comfortable but perfect for keeping…
Called Not to Serve
Neal David SilvesterPodcast version of this Personal Essay. My brain is slightly broken. The natural lows and highs of life are amplified by chemical imbalance into deep emotional troughs and crazed manic waves that can strike anytime…
Rare as a Five-Legged Jackrabbit Roger Terry. Bruder: The Perplexingly Spiritual Life and Not Entirely Unexpected Death of a Mormon Missionary.
B. C. Oliva“I’m Not Shaving My Legs Until We Baptize!” Angela Liscom Clayton. The Legend of Hermana Plunge.
Joshua FosterReview: Running the (Selected) Gamut of Missionary Experiences Mike Laughead and Theric Jepsen, eds. Served: A Missionary Comics Anthology
Mike LemonRemarks at Chase’s Missionary Farewell
Douglas H. ParkerThere is an apparent rule, honored in some wards as often in the breach I as in its observance, that talks given at missionary farewells are not to be devoted to eulogizing the departing missionary. I enjoy the sentimental per sonal sharing that attends eulogies and do not mind meetings that deal in personalities, but I will follow the rule and devote my remarks to gospel subjects. This is difficult to do because I am very proud of my son and have deep feelings of gratitude and joy relating to the mission experience that awaits him and his readiness for it. I hope he will sense this as I share some advice concerning missionary service.
What You Leave Behind: Six Years at the MTC
Gary James BergeraEven now, nearly eleven years later, I can still see his face—shocked, fearful, and deeply pained. I’d been working for almost four months at the newly constructed, multi-million dollar Language Training Mission, as the Missionary…
Mormonism in the Twenty-first Century
Armand L. MaussMormonism in Modern Japan
Jiro NumanoBetween Covenant and Treaty: The LDS Future in New Zealand
David GilgenBetween Covenant and Treaty: The LDS Future in New Zealand
Ian G. BarberTowards 2000: Mormonism in Australia
Marjorie NewtonReinventing Mormonism: Guatemala as Harbinger of the Future?
Thomas W. MurphyMormonism in Latin America: Towards the Twenty-first Century
David Clark KnowltonEthnization and Accommodation
Walter E. A. Van BeekFeeding the Fleeing Flock
Wilfried DecooScience and Mormonism: Past, Present, Future
David H. BaileyDialogue 29.1 (Spring 1996): 80–97
Will the church be able to retain the essence of its theology in the faceof challenges from science? Will the church’s discourse on scientific topicsbe marked by fundamentalism, isolationism, or progressivism? Will the church be able to retain its large contingent of professional scientists?
Thinking About the Word of God in the Twenty-First Century
Karl C. SandbergMembership Growth, Church Activity, Missionary Recruitment
Gordon ShepherdMembership Growth, Church Activity, Missionary Recruitment
Gary ShepherdThe Uncertain Dynamics of LDS Expansion, 1950-2020
Lowell C. Ben BennionThe Uncertain Dynamics of LDS Expansion, 1950-2020
Lawrence A. YoungGuest Editor’s Introduction
Armand L. MaussThe Missionary Journal of Cectpa Haut
Erika KnightThe Rhetoric of Hypocrisy: Virtuous and Vicious
Wayne BoothThe Proper Order in Which You Found It: From a Brazilian Missionary Journal
Seth P. ClarkeAssociation of Mormon Letters Conference: Beyond Missionary Stories: Voicing the Transnational Mormon Experience
(author)A Swelling Tide: Nineteen-Year-Old Sister Missionaries in the Twenty-First Century
Courtney L. Rabada“It was not a self-consistent ideology but a movement—a tremor in the earth, a lift in the wind, a swelling tide . . . an exhilarating sense of discovery, a utopian hope that women might…
A Missionary Farewell
Justin GoodsonListen to the audio version of this piece here. A crowd of several thousand poured into the Provo Tabernacle. They filled the wooden pews, the kind that are never quite comfortable but perfect for keeping…
Called Not to Serve
Neal David SilvesterPodcast version of this Personal Essay. My brain is slightly broken. The natural lows and highs of life are amplified by chemical imbalance into deep emotional troughs and crazed manic waves that can strike anytime…
Rare as a Five-Legged Jackrabbit Roger Terry. Bruder: The Perplexingly Spiritual Life and Not Entirely Unexpected Death of a Mormon Missionary.
B. C. Oliva“I’m Not Shaving My Legs Until We Baptize!” Angela Liscom Clayton. The Legend of Hermana Plunge.
Joshua FosterReview: Running the (Selected) Gamut of Missionary Experiences Mike Laughead and Theric Jepsen, eds. Served: A Missionary Comics Anthology
Mike LemonRemarks at Chase’s Missionary Farewell
Douglas H. ParkerThere is an apparent rule, honored in some wards as often in the breach I as in its observance, that talks given at missionary farewells are not to be devoted to eulogizing the departing missionary. I enjoy the sentimental per sonal sharing that attends eulogies and do not mind meetings that deal in personalities, but I will follow the rule and devote my remarks to gospel subjects. This is difficult to do because I am very proud of my son and have deep feelings of gratitude and joy relating to the mission experience that awaits him and his readiness for it. I hope he will sense this as I share some advice concerning missionary service.
What You Leave Behind: Six Years at the MTC
Gary James BergeraEven now, nearly eleven years later, I can still see his face—shocked, fearful, and deeply pained. I’d been working for almost four months at the newly constructed, multi-million dollar Language Training Mission, as the Missionary…
Mormonism in the Twenty-first Century
Armand L. MaussMormonism in Modern Japan
Jiro NumanoBetween Covenant and Treaty: The LDS Future in New Zealand
David GilgenBetween Covenant and Treaty: The LDS Future in New Zealand
Ian G. BarberTowards 2000: Mormonism in Australia
Marjorie NewtonReinventing Mormonism: Guatemala as Harbinger of the Future?
Thomas W. MurphyMormonism in Latin America: Towards the Twenty-first Century
David Clark KnowltonEthnization and Accommodation
Walter E. A. Van BeekFeeding the Fleeing Flock
Wilfried DecooScience and Mormonism: Past, Present, Future
David H. BaileyDialogue 29.1 (Spring 1996): 80–97
Will the church be able to retain the essence of its theology in the faceof challenges from science? Will the church’s discourse on scientific topicsbe marked by fundamentalism, isolationism, or progressivism? Will the church be able to retain its large contingent of professional scientists?
Thinking About the Word of God in the Twenty-First Century
Karl C. SandbergMembership Growth, Church Activity, Missionary Recruitment
Gordon ShepherdMembership Growth, Church Activity, Missionary Recruitment
Gary ShepherdThe Uncertain Dynamics of LDS Expansion, 1950-2020
Lowell C. Ben BennionThe Uncertain Dynamics of LDS Expansion, 1950-2020
Lawrence A. YoungGuest Editor’s Introduction
Armand L. MaussThe Missionary Journal of Cectpa Haut
Erika KnightThe Rhetoric of Hypocrisy: Virtuous and Vicious
Wayne BoothThe Proper Order in Which You Found It: From a Brazilian Missionary Journal
Seth P. ClarkeAssociation of Mormon Letters Conference: Beyond Missionary Stories: Voicing the Transnational Mormon Experience
(author)A Swelling Tide: Nineteen-Year-Old Sister Missionaries in the Twenty-First Century
Courtney L. Rabada“It was not a self-consistent ideology but a movement—a tremor in the earth, a lift in the wind, a swelling tide . . . an exhilarating sense of discovery, a utopian hope that women might…