“Contents,” Ensign, Mar. 1976, 1
Special Features
First Presidency Message: Relief Society—Its Promise and PotentialPresident Spencer W. Kimball
A Conversation with Sister Barbara B. Smith, Relief Society General President
Relief Society: Mukluks in Alaska, Night School in Mexico, Canned Bananas in MissouriJanice Smith
Problems, Solutions: Being a Latter-day Saint Woman TodayLavina Fielding
When You Feel Inadequate as a MotherClaudia T. Goates
Mormon Sisterhood There’s a Poet inside Me Marilyn Arnold Wear Your Working Shoes Betty Jessup Stena Scorup: First Lady of Salina Vicky Burgess-Olson Commitment to Motherhood LaRee Farrar I Dug Up My Talents Nancy Seljestad
“I Journey with an Angel”: Husbands Share Appreciation for Their WivesLane Johnson
New Testament Backgrounds: Galatians through ColossiansEdward J. Brandt and J. Lewis Taylor
“Provoke Not Your Children”F. Enzio Busche
Communication Counts: Teenagers Talk about Their ParentsJanice Smith
Announcing: Winners of the 1976 Writing Contests
Rules for the 1977 Contests
1976 All-Church Article Writing Contest Winner: The Strangers within Our GatesSusan Spencer Zmolek
1976 All-Church Poetry Writing Contest Winners Those Quiet Rolling Woods Dale Bjork Carpenters Marilyn Reynolds DUP Program, July 24, 1975, North Ward Chapel, Panguitch, Utah Jean S. Marshall
1976 Eliza R. Snow Poetry Writing Contest Winners Near the Red Sea: Sariah Clara Laster Women, Look toward Eve Martha Pettijohn Morrise Emma Neat Bennett, Alberta Pioneer Lila Bennett Spencer
1976 All-Church Short Story Writing Contest Winner: The AnniversaryBarbara Bessey Campbell
A Strange Thing in the Land: The Return of the Book of Enoch, Part 4Hugh Nibley
Regular Features
I Have a QuestionHugh Nibley
Mirthright
Random Sampler
Keeping Pace
What Do You Make? Mormon Handicraft Shop Sells It, Shows It
Comment
Speaking Today The Blessings and Responsibilities of Womanhood President Spencer W. Kimball Why Every Woman Needs Relief Society Elder Mark E. Petersen Ways of Pleasantness and Peace Marian R. Boyer
News of the Church
On the cover: Applique by Phyllis Luch. Cover photography by Eldon Linschoten.
Inside front cover: Emma Smith, a 1941 painting by Latter-day Saint artist Lee Greene Richards. The original hangs in the Relief Society Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. Emma Hale Smith [was] wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith and first General President of the Relief Society.
Inside back cover: John Taylor. Photography by C. R. Savage, a noted early Mormon photographer. The date of the photograph is unknown, although it was taken during President Taylor’s presidency.