New Era

June 1983

Volume 13, Number 5

Contents

• Departments

• Feedback

• The Message: Instruments of Righteousness
  Elder Carlos E. Asay

• My Family: My Means of Survival
  Karen Backman

• Mormonisms

• Participatory Journalism: Apple Blossoms, Orchestras, and Stars
  Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard

• In Tune: Love Casts Out Fear
  Joan Oviatt and Dan Carter

• FYI: For Your Information

• Puzzlement: Who’s Who Among Women in the Scriptures
  Kathleen Ellstrom

• Photo of the Month
  Kevin Merrell

• Feature Articles

• The Golden Chain
  Kipling Charles Clark

• Land of Sunshine, Land of Rain
  Richard M. Romney

• Love Casts Out Fear
  Joan Oviatt

• The Name Connection
  Benjamin Urrutia

• A Perfectly Portable Picnic
  Diane L. Mangum

• Fiction and Poetry

• A Hymn for Guaymas
  Alma J. Yates

• Me and Cat
  Marin Forbis

Cover: Lavishly ornamented jeepneys are a familiar sight to young Latter-day Saints in the Philippines. See story on p. 20. (Photos by Richard M. Romney.)