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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

JalShalley Lynch first met the missionaries while on a smoke break at work, and she asked them so many questions that the elders missed their next appointment. In March 2004, she joined the LDS Church. Strong-minded, honest, and ready to laugh, Shalley—sometimes known on the streets as Pooh—was born and raised in Washington D.C. She [...]

Mary was an elite child gymnast and is now a massage therapist for BYU athletes and Real Salt Lake. In that man’s world of professional soccer, she is known as “the little mother.” She lives in Spring Lake, Utah with her husband and four children: Anikin, Ren, Max, and Trinity. You were trained to be [...]

Lita Little Giddins joined the Church at age eighteen and served a mission to England Leeds in 1986-7. She earned BA and MS degrees from Brigham Young University. A gifted performer, Lita continually uses her talents to help share the gospel. She starred as Egyptus in Michael McLean’s premier production of The Ark, and is [...]

Beverly Brough Campbell served for twelve years as director of International Affairs for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., she worked with ambassadors and other leaders in the nation’s capital and at the U.N. to open doors of understanding and access for the Church throughout the world. Brigham Young University [...]