Segullah Journal

Jenette Blair Lambert has spent her adult life as a nurse, ministering to those with mental and terminal illness, yet until a few years ago, she never considered that she’d become involved in a literal ministry. While working as a hospice nurse in the Salt Lake Valley, Jen heard about a chaplaincy program run at [...]

THE NEON’S BEEN ON THE VERGE of dying for years. Two years ago, after leaking oil all over the driveway for who knows how long, the head gasket blew. We spent several expectant days shopping for a new car, but ultimately Ed decided to pay $1200 (about twice as much as the car was worth) [...]

SEVERAL MONTHS AGO I emailed Louise Plummer to see if I could interview her and her husband, Tom, for our “Inside and Outside Marriage” issue. “Sure,” she responded, “but I’ll tell you right now, I’m not sure how much truth you’ll get out of us.” I was intrigued, because Tom and Louise have made a [...]

Film Review During an early scene in the documentary, Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons, Darius Aidan Gray sums up the line he’s walked since he joined the LDS Church in the early sixties, years before he was eligible to hold the priesthood: “I am a proud black man … yet I embraced [...]

I first got to know Margaret Blair Young—writer, BYU writing instructor, and co-creator of the documentary Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons—in the fall of 1996, when I was a student at BYU’s London study abroad program. Back then, I knew Margaret as “Sister Young,” wife of Bruce, a Shakespeare professor in charge [...]

Latter-day Saints expect to receive personal revelation while reading the scriptures, but it may come as a surprise while reading the classics. When Marilyn Brown was ten years old she read George Eliot’s novel Adam Bede and felt inspired to ask a question that has guided her life for the last sixty years: “Where is [...]

by Shelah Mastny Miner MANOLIE NETTAVONGS JASPER entered this world as a princess. She was born in the bed of her grandfather, the king, in the palace at Xiangkhouangville, Laos. Manolie’s grandfather lived to the age of 115 and spent time in his waning years personally teaching his young granddaughter. She says, “Grandfather believed in education [...]