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| Tab Choir Charms Houston, Ft Worth |
| The Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed Friday night
in Houston, Texas, overcoming floods caused by a tropical storm, and
Saturday night in Ft Worth, Texas, reaching an audience that
sometimes traveled hundreds of miles to see them. Performing a
concert featuring a variety of popular songs, the Choir charmed many
and even got the audience in Fort Worth to join in the final number. |
| The Life of Groundbreaking Film Maker Richard Dutcher |
| Looking back at his life, film writer,director and
producer Richard Dutcher, 37, can say it has been like a movie.
Telling the story of a young boy who fills his long hours alone at
home by writing his own novels, working long days in hot oil fields,
holding multiple jobs in pizza joints and nursing homes, coupled with
a father who chased women and worked in bars and a step father who
ultimately found himself behind bars, Dutcher had only had to reflect
on his life for stories he has put on the screen. Best known for
"God's Army" and "Brigham City," Dutcher, a devout member of The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints isn't afraid to talk
about his religion. |
| Brady Udall's New Novel Looks at an Indian in Mormondom |
| LDS author Brady Udall's new novel "The Miracle Life
of Edgar Mint" was called a "A witty, wise and heartwrenching tale of a
naive orphan's struggle to survive an often unforgiving world" in the Salt
Lake Tribune last week. The novel tells the story of an indian youth as he
moves through an Arizona reservation into an LDS foster family and into
adulthood. But Udall, who says he is an active LDS Church member, says he
didn't write the novel for the Mormon audience, and that some Mormons may be
uncomfortable with it. |
| New Products: Help for Missionaries, Young Children and Reflections on Emma Smith |
| Former Provo Missionary Training Center
president Ed J. Pinegar has produced a new book to help missionaries
learn to succeed on their missions. "The Ultimate Missionary
Companion" is meant as a guide for missionaries that will help them
be more successful. That guide is joined in the new books this week
by "Prayer Time" a board book on prayer for young readers and by an
author's reflections on Emma Smith. |
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