Lavina Looks Back: Can't we all just get along? Ensigners and Sunstoners?

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Lavina Looks Back: Can't we all just get along?

Lavina wrote:

9 August 1992

Elder Jacob de Jaeger, speaking in Salt Lake Whittier Ward priesthood meeting, identifies as one of six duties of the Latter-day Saints “to get along with everybody—and that includes those that read the Ensign and those that read Sunstone.”


Note: Elder de Jager, 81, died at home Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2004, after a full life that included tireless service as a regional representative, then as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, and, after receiving emeritus status, bishop of the Canyon Road Ward in Salt Lake City.---https://www.deseret.com/2004/3/6/20788172/tireless-service/


[This is a portion of Dr. Lavina Fielding Anderson's view of the chronology of the events that led to the September Six (1993) excommunications. The author's concerns were the control the church seemed to be exerting on scholarship.]

The LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership: A Contemporary Chronology by Dr. Lavina Fielding Anderson

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/the-lds-intellectual-community-and-church-leadership-a-contemporary-chronology/

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