New Era

August 1986

Volume 16, Number 8

Contents

• Departments

• Feedback

• The Message: “Thy Speech Reveals Thee”
  Elder L. Tom Perry

• Mormonisms

• Feature Articles

• Windows of Light: The 1986 New Era Contest Winners

• Draw Near
  Stephen P. Schank

• You’re in Our Prayers
  Kirsten Christensen

• Gerard Bloomberg
  Dayle King Searle

• Selected Photography, Art, and Poetry Winners: Windows of Light

• In Miniature
  Janet Thomas

• Good Enough
  Sandra Stallings

• R_x for Sacrament Talks
  Chris Crowe

• Creativity and the Latter-day Saint
  Crawford Gates

• A Great Idea
  Melvin Leavitt

• Come Forth, O Children
  Rebecca Woodworth

Cover: Like sunshine through an open window, your creativity shines in our annual contest issue. Winners are announced on pp. 8–9. (Photography by Grant Heaton.)