On the cover: The Ensign takes a look at fatherhood. Photography by Eldon K. Linschoten.
Inside front cover: Nineteenth-century Latter-day Saint missionaries in England are depicted in Somerset Lane at Bratton, in the Cotswolds, Ken Baxter, 23″ by 35″, oil on canvas, 1978, located in the Presiding Bishopric Area Office, Birmingham, England.
Inside back cover: Beginning this month, the Ensign will be featuring C. C. A. Christensen’s Mormon Panorama on its inside back cover. We begin with Panorama #2, Joseph Smith Receiving the Gold Plates (above), and Panorama #3, Joseph Smith Is Mobbed, Hiram, Ohio, 1832 (below).