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Issue 139 November 2005

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Topics included in this issue:
Agency, Autobiography, Biography, Blessing, Book of Mormon, Booknote, Church Activity, Community, Contemporary Mormonism, Cornucopia, Counseling and Mental Health, Critical Scholarship, Economics, Editorial, Equality, Faith, Family, Feminism, Fiction, Godhood, Hierarchy, Holidays, Humanitarian Issues, Humor, In Memoriam, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, LDS Doctrine, Letters, Marriage, Missionary Work, Mormon Culture, Mormon History, News, Old Testament, Ordinances, Parenting, People, Personal Essay, Personal Journey, Pioneers, Poetry, Politics, Polygamy, Prophet/prophecy, Relief Society, Religious Studies, Review, Science and Religion, Scripture studies, Sexuality, Spirituality, Standards, Symposium, Testimony, Theology, Truth, Violence, Welfare, Women, Word of Wisdom,
Page Category Author Title
2 Letters to Editor Letters to the Editor
9 Column Dan Wotherspoon From the Editor: Hopeful
10 Cornucopia Darla Graff Thompson Tis the Season: A Cold December Morning
11 Cornucopia Reed Wahlquist This Side of the Tracts: My Adventures As a Coffee Abstainer
13 Column Christopher Bigelow Priesthood Holder Asks, 'Where's the Sizzle?'
13 Column Roy Thorne Sugar Beet: 'Technically a Virgin' Movement Taking Off
14 Feature Stephen Carter Winter Light: 2005 Eugene England Memorial Personal Essay Contest Third Place Winner
18 Feature Rick Jepson Godwrestling: Physicality, Conflict, and Redemption in Mormon Doctrine
31 Poetry Ben Wilensky Mythic Hero
32 Feature Julie Mounteer Hawker Toward a More Authentic Sisterhood: Unmasking Hidden Envy and Competition among LDS Women
41 Feature Eugene Woodbury Blessing Giver: 2002 Brookie & D. K. Brown Fiction Contest Moonstone Winner
46 Column L. Kay Gillespie Turning the Time Over to . . . : Confessions of a Santa Dissenter
50 Column Doe Daughtrey Moonstone: Complex, Capable, Compassionate, and Dangerous
52 Column R. B. Scott Mormons and Politics: Can a Moderate Mitt Find a Way to Pennsylvania Avenue?
55 Column D. Jeff Burton Braving the Borderlands. . . : Developing an LDS-Compatible Personal Religion
58 Review Mark D. Thomas Where Is Joseph Smith Now?: Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, by Richard Lyman Bushman, and Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet, by Dan Vogel
63 Poetry Robert Rees Liu Shahel
64 Review Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Intimate Journeys: 'The Sum of Our Past: Revisiting Mormon Women,' by Judy Busk, and 'The Salt Lake City 14th Ward Album Quilt,' 1857, by Carol Holindrake Nielson
66 Column Kevin Christensen Yea, Yea, Nay, Nay: Determining What Is 'Real'
70 Poetry Marcia Buffington A Flight of Geese
71 Column R. Dennis Potter Yea, Yea, Nay, Nay: Toward a New Reading of the Book of Mormon
74 News Update: General Conference Report; Church Aids Hurricane Victims; Mormonism in Newsweek; And More!
80 Column Wayne C. Booth An Olive Leaf: Long Enough, Closely Enough
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