Contents:

Readers' Forum

FEATURES
The Puzzle of Christian Beginnings / Wayne A. Meeks
Delighting in Plainess: Issues Surrounding a Simple Modern English Book of Mormon / Lynn Matthews Anderson
In Search of Spilled Root Beer / Margeret Young
Some Distinguishing Characteristics of Mormon Philosophy / Sterling M. McMurrin
Reflections on Mormon Materialism / John Durham Peters

POETRY
[Where is There a Singing Bird...] / David Clark Knowlton
Portable Shrine / Sean Brendan Brown
Visiting Teaching (a spiritual) / Lisa Bolin Hawkins
Another Country to Cat Casteel / Kathleen Weber
[Bring Me a Guitar...] / David Clark Knowlton
Looking at Her, I Could / Sean Brendan Brown

COLUMNS
From the Editor: A Cornucopia of Things / Elbert Eugene Peck
Turning the Time Over To...: Journeying Into the Desert: The Faith-based Witness Against Nuclear Weapons / Lawrence Young
This Side of the Tracts: I Don't Want to be a Mormon Anymore! / Carol Lynn Pearson

REVIEWS
Plural Marriage and the Mormon Twilight Zone: Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage by B. Carmon Hardy / reviewed by D. Michael Quinn
Sympathetic But Honest: Things in Heaven and Earth: The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, A Mormon Prophet by Thomas G. Alexander / reviewed by Kenneth L. Cannon II
A Crash Like a Shot: Things Happen: Poems of Survival by Emma Lou Thayne / reviewed by Dennis Clark

NEWS
News
Update
Awards
Sunspots
Sunstone Calendar
Peculiar People
In the Net

COVER / Larry Clarkson