Contents:

Readers' Forum

FEATURES
And Now for a Little Mormon Humor / Ann Edwards Cannon
Scapegoats and Scarecrows in Our Town: When the Interests of Church and Community Collide / L. Jackson Newell
Mission Rules / Penny Allen
I-Thou vs. I-It Conversions: The Mormon "Baseball Baptism" Era / D. Michael Quinn
Things of This World / Michael Fillerup
Interview: A Newsletter of Our Own / Hartmut Weissmann

POETRY
Susurro Del Sausal / David Clark Knowlton
Arizona Geometric / Virginia Ellen Baker
Mist on Garmisch Slopes / Virginia Ellen Baker
Repose / Sean Bendan Brown
Parachute / Holly Welker
The Mound at Bryn Celli Ddu / Douglas M. Jole
Your Task Now / Holly Welker
Of Sacrifice a Shrine / Ingrid Fuhriman
If You Want to Cry, Touch Me / Sean Brendan Brown

COLUMNS
From the Editor: Hiking to Kolob / Elbert Eugene Peck
Turning the Time Over To...: Waiting for World's End: Wilford Woodruff and David Koresh / Susan Staker
This Side of the Tracts: He Is a Prophet of God: A Personal Encounter with Ezra Taft Benson / Frank Alan Bruno
Lighter Minds: Flannel Boards and Flip Charts / Peter Sorensen

REVIEWS
A Call for Moral Tradition: Health and Medicine among the Latter-day Saints: Science, Sense, and Scripture, by Lester E. Bush Jr. / reviewed by Courtney S. Campbell
Anti-Mormonism for Voyeurs: Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond, by Deborah Laake / reviewed by Massimo Introvigne

NEWS
Church Disciplinary Actions Continue to Generate Heat
Oaks: 'I've Been Victim of Double-Decker Deceit'
Oaks Dissembled Packer's Role in Toscano Excommuinication, Benson Says
Update
Peculiar People
Sunspots
Sunstone Calendar
Oxymormons

COVER / Brian Bean