New Era

August 1975

Volume 5, Number 8

Contents

• Departments

• Feedback

• The Message: “If Thou Art Willing”
  Elder Paul H. Dunn

• Participatory Journalism: The Red and White Button
  Laurel Lyn King

• Mormonisms

• Photo of the Month
  David E. Marks

• Feature Articles

• Kieth Merrill: Great American Filmmaker
  Brian Kelly

• Winners: The 1975 New Era Writing, Art, Photography Contest

• Selected Poetry and Photography Winners 1975

• Dear Journal
  Jeanine Tibbitts

• Nothing But a Title
  Melvin Leavitt

• Conversion in Israel
  Stan Lerch as told to Paul James Toscano

• Mormon Poets Talk about Their Craft
  Douglas E. Airmet

• Fiction and Poetry

• The Runaway
  Barbara Bessey Campbell

• My Captain’s Words
  Lowell M. Durham, Jr.

Cover photo by Kevin Merrell; Back cover photo by Scott Lewis