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  • Cornucopia, Mormon Arts

    Crunch the Catalog

    Rosalynde Welch

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    October 24, 2006

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    163 responses

    The hidden meaning of the Deseret Book Christmas Catalog. Read More

  • Women in the Church

    Charlotte Owens Sackett: Teaching the Sisters to Sing

    Ardis E. Parshall

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    October 23, 2006

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    7 responses

    Lottie Owens was born in 1877 in Willard, Box Elder County, Utah. Her mother’s family were early Church members in Nauvoo; her father had emigrated to Utah as a convert from Wales. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Primary Lesson 39 Supplement

    Julie M. Smith

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    October 23, 2006

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    7 responses

    Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Blog-Post Bingo (or Tic-Tac-Toe)

    Kaimi Wenger

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    October 23, 2006

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    18 responses

    Start with a three-by-three grid. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Primary Lesson 38 Supplement

    Julie M. Smith

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    October 22, 2006

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    8 responses

    Read More

  • Cornucopia, Lesson Aids

    Sunday School Lesson #41

    Jim F.

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    October 22, 2006

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    Lesson 41: Jeremiah 1-2, 15, 20, 26, 36-38 Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Retiring Toscanini

    Ardis E. Parshall

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    October 21, 2006

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    20 responses

    We are a storytelling people. Our Sunday lessons are as often built around a scriptural episode as around an abstract principle. Our General Conference talks and magazine articles are brightened by stories. Our family reunions are celebrations of family stories. We want stories from our returning missionaries, not exhortations on repentance and baptism. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Baby Daddy

    Rosalynde Welch

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    October 20, 2006

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    43 responses

    Why are babies busting all over? Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Isogloss

    Jonathan Green

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    October 20, 2006

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    16 responses

    One way to think about religious difference is with isoglosses. Read More

  • Women in the Church

    Sarah Day Hall: Southern Mother in Israel

    Ardis E. Parshall

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    October 19, 2006

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    9 responses

    American Southerners have been joining the Church since the 1830s. The Southern States Mission became the most successful mission field in the Church in the last generation of the 1800s. During those years when southern LDS meeting halls were burned and elders and even members were murdered, many thousands of Southerners responded to the gospel. Two elders knocked on a farmhouse door in Lowndes County, Alabama, on a spring day in 1896. The door was opened by Sarah Day Hall, holding her Read More

  • Cornucopia

    BYU Sues Pfizer

    Julie M. Smith

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    October 19, 2006

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    28 responses

    This article was interesting. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Choosing Joy

    Kaimi Wenger

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    October 18, 2006

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    16 responses

    The Brazilian musical Orfeu Negro, a capoeira-filled retelling of the Orpheus story, contains a beautiful and haunting stanza penned by Antonio Carlos Jobim and sung to a heartbreaking tune: Tristeza não tem fim, felicidade sim. Happiness ends, but sadness lasts forever. Read More

  • Church History

    Our Crown Jewels: The Church Archives

    Ardis E. Parshall

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    October 17, 2006

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    33 responses

    In the fall of 1983, Dialogue published Davis Bitton’s personal memoir of Leonard Arrington’s tenure as Church Historian, “Ten Years in Camelot.� That essay conveyed the excitement of discovering, writing, and publishing Mormon history on a scale never before known. The essay also records disappointment with changes then underway, betraying the uncertainty, even fearfulness, that comes with change. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    The Seer at the Microscope

    Rosalynde Welch

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    October 17, 2006

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    17 responses

    From time to time I’ve heard it delicately suggested that the Teachings of the Presidents of the Church curriculum is, not to put too fine a point on it, bland pablum, and stale, to boot. These pundits have not read last week’s lesson. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Are Mormons Trinitarian?

    Ben Huff

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    October 16, 2006

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    106 responses

    Mormons often make fun of traditional Christians for their struggling efforts to make sense of the Biblical teaching that the Father, Son and Holy Ghost are one God. Yet Mormons are committed to the unity of God at least as much as traditional Christians are, by our scriptures, particularly the Book of Mormon. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Stump the Missionaries

    Gordon Smith

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    October 15, 2006

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    69 responses

    This afternoon, we had a family from our ward over for dinner. The missionaries were here, too. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Primary Lesson #37 Supplement

    Julie M. Smith

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    October 15, 2006

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    One response

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  • Church History, Women in the Church

    Geertruida Lodder Zippro: The Extra Mile

    Ardis E. Parshall

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    October 15, 2006

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    13 responses

    Much of the attention of the Relief Society Conference of October, 1945, was devoted to efforts to assist surviving members of the Church in the former war zones of Europe. Contact had been reestablished with some of the European branches, and reports of their experiences and especially of their needs were read to the sisters assembled in Salt Lake City: Read More

  • Women in the Church

    Christina Olsen Rockwell: Visiting Teacher

    Ardis E. Parshall

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    October 13, 2006

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    21 responses

    Christina Olsen was a Norwegian convert to the Church who emigrated to Zion before the arrival of the railroad. She was in her early 30s when she married the legendary Orrin Porter Rockwell, a man more than 20 years older than she was. Christina began her short married life by dividing her time between an isolated ranch in Rush Valley, Tooele County, and a home in Salt Lake City. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    What’s the Worst Halloween Candy?

    Rosalynde Welch

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    October 13, 2006

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    109 responses

    I’m pretty sure I discovered it at Big Lots yesterday: Tweeterz, which consist (according to the packaging) of candy-coated triangular shaped bits of Twizzlers. Any contenders for the title? Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Why study old books?

    Jonathan Green

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    October 13, 2006

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    10 responses

    Most German classes taught by most German professors have little to do with the professor’s academic specialty and a lot to do with teaching college students to speak and write better German. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Gender Pairs in Luke’s Gospel

    Julie M. Smith

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    October 12, 2006

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    8 responses

    When two very similar stories–very similiar, that is, except that one is about a man and another is about a woman–are found in a Gospel, they are called a gender pair. While gender pairs occur in all the gospels, they are particularly prominent in Luke: Read More

  • Church History

    Secrets from the Research Library

    Ardis E. Parshall

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    October 12, 2006

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    17 responses

    My Utah history columns for the Salt Lake Tribune have a limit of 650 words; the Relief Society articles need to fit a single page. The brevity of these accounts may mask the complexity of the work behind them, so put on your deerstalker caps and I’ll recreate the process, using Frances Swan Clark as the example. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    From Charisma to Bureaucracy in Two Pages

    Nate Oman

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    October 11, 2006

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    33 responses

    About two weeks ago I went to the University of Richmond to do some research on Mormon history. Thanks to Terryl Givens, Richmond has acquired a set of the Selected Collections DVDs that were released a while ago by the Church Archives. Hence, I found myself in a library carrel in Virginia reading Orson Hyde’s handwritten 1834 minutes for the Kirtland High Council. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    What’s Up with Phebe?

    Julie M. Smith

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    October 11, 2006

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    32 responses

    Kaimi wanted the rest of the story. Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Book Review: Jesus Christ and the World of the New TestamentBook Cover

    Julie M. Smith

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    October 10, 2006

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    33 responses

    It looks like a coffee table book but it reads like top-notch scholarship. . . . Read More

  • Women in the Church

    Frances Swan Clark: A Kindness Remembered

    Ardis E. Parshall

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    October 10, 2006

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    2 responses

    Many of Utah’s early pioneers did not remain long in the Valley. In defiance of counsel, some rushed to the California gold fields. A few went to California as missionaries, and the two apostles who founded a ranching colony in San Bernardino found no shortage of volunteers to accompany them there. Read More

  • Women in the Church

    Catherine Garber Laine: The Role of Her Lifetime

    Ardis E. Parshall

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    October 9, 2006

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    11 responses

    This story and the other women’s stories to follow were written for my ward’s Relief Society newsletter, as a formal calling for which I was set apart. The assignment was to write about a faith-promoting incident involving a woman; I added the detail “… whom no one has ever heard about.” Read More

  • Church History

    On the Road to Mountain Meadows

    Ardis E. Parshall

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    October 9, 2006

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    31 responses

    Two years ago I wrote an article entitled “‘Pursue, Retake & Punish’: The 1857 Santa Clara Ambush.� You can read it here if this essay triggers your interest; the short version is this: Read More

  • Cornucopia

    Hello, Goodbye

    Rosalynde Welch

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    October 9, 2006

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    7 responses

    Actually, goodbye first. Read More

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