New Era

May 1986

Volume 16, Number 5

Contents

• Department

• Feedback

• The Message: Forces in Life: A Daddy-Daughter Dialogue
  Elder Russell M. Nelson

• Participatory Journalism: Whom Will You Trust?
  Larry Tippetts

• Mormonisms

• Mormonad

• FYI: For Your Information

• Photo of the Month
  Anselm Spring

• Feature Articles

• Growing toward the Good
  Richard G. Ellsworth

• Just What She Always Wanted
  Jill C. Major

• One Day in Dallas
  Lisa A. Johnson

• Time for the Feast

• Your Average 5′ 14″ Girl Next Door
  Ann Cannon

• A Good Sense of Humor
  Chris Crowe

• Cham Nap
  Sandra Stallings

• Fiction and Poetry

• The Goldfish Parable
  Jack Weyland

• Interrupted Prayer
  Teresa Spring

Cover: It was an exciting day in Dallas, Texas, when Michelle DeMarco and other young women in the Richardson Stake tapped a well of talent. See p. 20. (Photography by Don Heit.)