Mormon Literature Database - What the Church Means to People Like Me

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What the Church Means to People Like Me
by Richard D. Poll

Published In Series:
From the Pulpit Number:[5]

Published In Anthology:
A Thoughtful Faith: Essays on Belief Centerville, Utah: Canon Press, 1986 (310p.): 1-15

Published In Collection:
Personal Voices: A Celebration of Dialogue's Personal Essays Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1987: 49-61

Published In Periodical:
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 2.4 (Winter 1967): 107-117

Published In Periodical:
Sunstone 5.4 (July-Aug 1980): 15-20


Genre:		Personal Essay

Annotations:
A sermon first given in the Palo Alto Ward sacrament meeting in August 1967, this has become a well-known essay in LDS intellectual circles for establishing a characterization of "iron rod" and "liahona" Mormons.

Complete text online at Marriott Library, University of Utah
http://content.lib.utah.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/dialogue&CISOPTR=2869&CISOSHOW=2813