The Salt Lake Tribune RELIGION Saturday, July 12, 1997 B2 WORLD VIEW Compiled by Peter Scarlet MORAL SCRUPLES A student angered byher ex- pulsion from a igious Ro- Plays, Poems, Books, Art Await Collectors @ Continued from B-1 man Catholic university for spendingnights with herfiance is taking her grievance to court. Aliya Peerzada, 23, a former resident of Exeter, N.H., is suing Thomas Aquinas College for invasion of privacy and civil rights violations. The suit in Ventura County Superior Court, in Santa Paula, Calif., seeks unspecified damages, legal fees and a permanent injunction barring the school from violating Peerzada’s civil rights. “This is a unique suit,” said Andrew Koenig, her lawyer, “She enrolled in a college. She didn't enroll in a convent.” Thomas Aquinasis a liberal arts school touted in consumer publications as a great buy for its high academic standards and accessible education. But the schooi places doctrines of the Roman Catholic Chureh first in its rules of student conduct, — The Associated Press Qo AFFECTION RESTRAINED Better think twice in British churches aboutgiving the “kiss of pe ir hugging thatvisi- tor. In Great Britain’s Methodist churches,it could be considered sexual harassment. Tough new measuresto pre- vent sexual harassment and to cope with its effects were accepted by the 570 clergy and lay delegates to the British Methodist Conference, the denomination’s top policy-mak- ing body, meeting in London June 28-July 5. The conference accepted new proposals in dealing with sexual harassment and abuse complaints, including exploring the use ofa telephone helpline. The entirely by Mormons for Mormons. If they are “official” works, they must be approved by church leaders. But even unofficial efforts are careful not to offend the sensitivities of the LDS faithful, thereby rendering the story much more one-dimensional than the trail experience was. Morethan 50 years ago, Hellywood took a shotat the story in “Brigham Young.” Dean Jagger broughta quiet dignityto thetitle role, while matinee hearthrobs Tyrone Power and Linda Darnall provided the romantic interest. Jagger depicted Brigham as a man of courage and industry, but one who suffered occasionalselfdoubts. In the end his confidence is restored by divine intervention. Many Mormons rejected the vacillating imageoftheir lionized leader. In its review of the film, the LDS Church-owned Deseret News wrote that the movie lacked “the faith and knowledge the real Brigham had, who never doubted his leadershipnorits divine direction,” Butthefilmisstill remembered fondly by many for its affectionate portrayal of the Saints and theirtrials. Another lasting favorite is the 1947 musical, ‘Promised Valley.” The Utah State Centennial Committee commissioned play- wright Arnold Sundgaardto write a musical about the trek with composer Crawford Gates. The choice of Sundgaard, a non-Mormon, was “only fitting, because Utahis not all Mormon,” says Pat Davis, executive director of the Grand Theatreat Salt Lake Community College. Gates, the premiere LDS composeratthe time,‘broughta rich understanding of the historical and spiritual significance of that era,” Davis says. Both men were “giants in their field.” The story of one couple, Jed and Celia, and their struggles and hopes while crossing the plains has been produced time and time again in the last 50 years. The play opened in the University of Utah stadium, then was produced for five summers in the Temple View i (now the LDS Church office building plaza). Then it moved to a permanent summer homeat the Lyric Theatre which became the Promised Valley Playhouse. In 1962, every ward orstake in the United States had its own production of the play. It played in ward houses and community the- atre, including the Pasadena Playhouse in Southern California, Every Mormonteenagera the time had a chance to bein it. Utah’s First Lady Jacqueline Smith Leavitt played Celia in 1981. Mormons loved it because it waslight and affirming, says Davis, who directed the play eight times, and non-Mormons loved it “because it was a very entertaining explanation ofthis valley.” In a single day this week, Davis received calls from California, Washington and Iowa asking about producing “Promised Valley.” joined the LDS Church in Liverpool, England andtheir desire to get to the Mormon Zion. Atfirst, the children in the family, Katie and Will, push their parents to emigrate, but Robert Prescott, the father, resists, fearing the family would be impoverished. So young Will hops on a ship and goes anyway. The rest of the ac- tion involves the family’s effort to find him,to cross the plains, and i discover the depthsof their beef. The play has been performed to enthusiastic crowds Tuesday through Saturday andwill contin- ue through Augusi 23. Like “Promised Valley,” LDS church groups will be able to mount local productions of “Barefoot.” ‘The script will be madeavailable to ward and stake groups, says Sesquicentennial Committee memberJane Malan. The committee will also provide video and audio tapes of this production. James Arrington, known for his one-man show, “Here's Brother Brigham,” collaborated with composer Steven Kapp Perry and actor/writer Marvin Payne on an- other pioneer musical, “Trail of Dreams.” Payne portrays his great-great-grandfather John Brown, who led 13 pioneer com- panies across the plains between 1847 and 1856. Told as a dream, Today’s Productions: More than three years ago the LDS Church asked New York City members, Kevin and Kahliel Kel- the play uses excerpts from 60 pioneer journals as scene transi- ly, to begin work on a musicalplay “Trail” is performed Fridays, commemorating the pioneers. They read many journals,letters and histories and developeda story about a 14-year old boy crossing the plains by himself. In Marchthe church's sesquicentennial committee turned the project over to the famedsciencefiction writer, Orson Scott Card, also an active Mormon. Card took the story in new directions, added plot and charac- ters and collaborated with his brother, Arlen Card, on the musie. The finished product, “Barefoot to Zion” opened June 19 at the Bountiful Regional Center. “Barefoot,’’ directed by Charles Metton, tells of the wealthy Prescott family who tions. Saturdays, Mondays and Thursday at Valentine Theater of the Utah State Developmental Center in American Fork andwill continue through August 2. Books: There are books for every taste and interest on the Mor- mon trek and Utah publishers are churning them out. Their Faces Toward Zion: Voices and Images of the Trek West by Richard Neitzel Holzap- fel (Bookcraft) uses more than 200 and excerpts from pioneer journals and letters to make the journey comealive, The Trail ofHope: The Story of the Mormon Trail by William Slaughter and Michael Landon is one of LDS Church-owned Deseret Book's showpiece books. Billed as the companion bookto the PBS broadcast by the sametitle that will air July 20, Trail also features more than 200 images from the Mormon Trail e: lence — etchings, lithographs, paintings, and photographs,along with firsthand accounts penned by participants. Maureen Jensen Proctor and Scot Proctor photographed portions of the Mormontrail in every season, hunting down the important historical sites from Great Britain to the Salt Lake Valley. Together they wrote The Gathering: Mormon Pioneers on the Trail to Zion (Deseret Book), a coffee table book thatrevisits the Mormonepic. Brigham Young University historian, Carol Cornwall Madsen, has compiled two books of pioneer writings, In Their Own. Words: Women and the Story of Nauvoo and Journey to Zion: Voices from the Mormon Trail (Deseret Book). Susan Arrington Madsen focus- es on the experience of children in J Walked to Zion: True Stories of Young Pioneers on the Mormon Trail (Deseret Book). Addto that The Salt Lake Tribune’s own daily amalgam ofpioneer journals, compiled by Harold Schindler. Schindler's book, Crossing the Plains, will be available at the end of July. All these books add impressive details and visual images to what is already known about the pioneer experience, but for sheer virtuoso writing, Stegner’s GatheringofSaints is at the top of the list. A 1964 review said that Stegner’s “‘sensitivity to human beings and his ability to undersstandthespirit motivating theoftpersecuted Latter-day Saints allow him insights missed by earlier writers.” Hi Tech: Covenant Communications has da i tennial compactdisc called ““Nauvoo Brass Bands,” which boasts the “exact instrumentation that was used bythe early pioneer musicians.” Its jacket describes the first band in Nauvoo,Ill, that included nine drummers,five fife players, two cymbal players, and one man each on etna tambourine, andtriangle. “One of the band’s functions was to escort new immigrants through the streets of the city, a practice that continued with the Saints in Utah,” says the jacket. This recreated band accompanies the Mormon Youth Symphony, sin; joneer songs. Deseiet Book has also produced two compact disks, ““Pioneer Portrait: A Musical Celebration,’ by Merrill Jenson, featuring Jenson’s instrumental evocation of pioneering themes and Brett Raymond's ‘First Light: Scenes from the Restoration,” pop songs recalling Mormonhistory. ‘The LDS Churchis now selling its multi-media CD-ROM containing audio recordings, video clips, and print material on the trek. The CD-ROM wasproducedoriginally for the news media,offering invaluable references on the Mormon Trail as well as information on the contemporary church from Alaska to Zimbabwe. The Tribune alsois producing a CD-ROM, which will contain its daily account of the Mormon ‘Trail reenactment,its feature articles and photography as well as Schindler's chronicle. The Other Stuff: Bonnets are hotsellers in every craft and fabrie store in Salt Lake. “T could sell 25 to 30 bonnets a day,” says Ginny Winters, consignment superviser at Mormon Handicraft in the ZCMI Center. But many other items are being marketed through depariment and specialty stores. The Mormon ‘Trail wool blanket goes for $195, while the cotton weaveversion is a mere $49.99. Pioneer dolls, dress patterns, wooden toys, sock horses, embroidery, pillows, and quilts are available — many are in ward groups. In fact, a book, Hands On Pioneers offers tips on how to make these items. There’s even a Brigham Young nutcracker, the perfect sesquicentennial Christmas gift. also agreed that stronger disciplinary measures will be established,as well as new programs to support victims. Two areas discussed as op- portunities for sexual harassment included the kiss of peace at more “exuberant” communion services, and howit can be considered embarrassing and demeaning to be hugged and kissed in church as a greeting by total strangers. The Rev. Jane Cook, a former policewoman, said she found sexual harassmentin the ministry “far more insidious than I had encountered in the macho workplace of the police.” — Religion News Service o MISSIONARIES SAFE Mormon Church missionaries in Cambodia have been evacuated to Bangkok, Thailand, after Americans were advised by the U.S. State Departmentto leave the country. The two-day evacuation was completed on Friday. American Fork resident Leland White became the church's mission president in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, less than two weeks ago. In an in- terview from Bangkok, he said that he, his wife, Joyce, 16 young men and three married couples safely left Cambodia after a few tense moments. ‘The most troublesomesituation was retrieving four single missionaries and one married couple from an apartment in the northern part of the city Park Will MarkPioneers’ Mormonsin Mexico Ready to Serve in Work Parties on Pioneer Day MARNI McENTEE SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE Ist S.L. Camp @ Continued from B-1 engraved on boulders throughout the park, which will become part ofthe Salt Lake City park system. Descendants of those pioneers have been asked to donate $200 for the rocks. The project is just one of thousands sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In December 1996, the governing First Presidencysentouta letter to all church leaders throughout the world to set aside July 19, 1997, to contribute a minimum of 150 work hours to their local communities. Church leaders allowed each congregation to decideonits own project. “As modern-day beneficiaries of the sacrifices made by pioneers who have gone before, we can show our gratitude by unitedly rendering charitable service to others in our communities,” said theletter signed by church President Gordon B. Hinckley and his counselors, Thomas S. Monson and James E. Faust. Ward organizations have spent thelast six months planning their projects. Mormons in one Layton ward have chosen eight widows and one divorced woman, some church members, some not, who need serious repair and MEXICO CITY — From the tiniest pueblos in southern Mexico to the grandest northern industrial centers, Mormon Church members are gearing upto illustrate what somesayis Mexicans’ favorite verb: com- partir — to share. In the northern port city of Ensenada, that translates into work parties that will paint the walls of two schools, clean up the penitentiary and repair the disabled access ramp at a publie library. In Monterrey, church members will deliver food to a hospital. In Mexico City, members will clean up their neighbor- hoods and reenact the 1847 Mormonpioneer journey from the Midwest to the Great Salt LakeValley. The volunteer work will take place on July 19 as part of Worldwide Pioneer Heritage Service Day, when 20,000 Mormons complete 150 hours of service in recognition of the 150th anniversary of Brigham Young and company’s trek. cleanup workon their properties. Families have been assigned to fix sagging roofs, cart away dead trees and debris, hook up swamp coolers and prune hi In Lubbock, Texas, ward groups are clearing an equestrian “It's a shared legacy,” said ‘Todd Christofferson, president of Mexico's Southern Area. “It is an opportunity to remember people who had beenthepioneers in their own country or their community.” Mormons who madethefirst forays into Mexico more than a century ago were pioneers in their own right, Christofferson said. In 1875,the first members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints journeyed south of the border, carrying church literature translated into Spanish. By 1912, more than 4,000 colonists settled in the northern states of Chihuahua and Sonora. Membership in the church grew slowly during the early 20th century, in part due to constitutional prohibitions against foreign religions in Mexico, which today remains 97 percent Roman Catholic. The country’s first temple was built in Mexico City in 1983.It was notuntila constitu- tional changein 1993, however, that the Mexican government granted official status to 210 trail, while Cincinnati members are cleaning miles of Ohio River shoreline. They are planting 1,000 trees in a park in Zaragoza, Spain; renovating a Jewish cemetery in Austria; working to preserve census records in Australia, er "Tt is an opportunity to remember people who had been the pioneers in their own country or their community.” Todd Christofferson Of Mexico's Southern Area RRL religious organizations. Mexico now is home to 157 Mormonstakes and just over 750,000 church members. Plans were announced in 1995 to build a new temple in Mon- Vatican Still Sees Hopefor Unity Move RELIGION NEWSSERVICE Cardinal Edward Cassidy, the Vatican's top ecumenicalofficial, has rejected the idea that there are insurmountable obstacles to the unity of Roman Catholicism and Lutheranism. “My reaction is always that this [ecumenical work]is not only our work, Our Lord is calling us, and we are not engaged in protecting ourselves. The grace is coming from God,” Cassidy told a news neighborhood has put these on hold, Christofferson said. The church also plans a Rasself-conf : conference in Hong Kong during the general assembly meeting of the Lutheran World Federation. According to a number of ecumenical observers, the Lutheran practice of ordaining women and terInin the Mexico City. to ordination has created women’s an . terrey, but resistance in the tained missionary training cen- here havespentthe last couple of months participating in and Planning World Service Day ae- “Tt will give us a chance to provide something more than just a party,” Christofferson said. and making pizzas to raise money for a cancerclinic in Brazil. The church projects that if ,0 congregations donate 150 hours each,that will be 3,000,000 collective hours contributed to iocal communities. the Vatican’s adamant opposition block,further contributing to the division between Catholics and Lutherans that stretches back to the 16th-century Reformation. Cassidy acknowledged that mit “authority in the church” — the role of the pope and papacy — i the two most difficult issues dividing Catholics and Lutherans. And he also said that “new ethical” differences on such issues as homosexuality, sex before marriage and permanence of marriage have arisen between the two churches, — The Associated Press o NO CARE THERE A cleric who sp the Southern Baptists’ boycott of Walt Disney Co. cannot house homeless people at his Buena Park, Calif., church. The Rev. Wiley Drake and will host “A Midsummers Night Dream" prime rib dinnerand silent auction, July 19,at 6 p.m., BULLETIN BOARD Garvey Hall, 4914 S. 2200 West, Taylorsville. ‘The event is semi-formal and costs $20 per Compiled by Matt Sartwell person. For more information, call 968-2369. BAPTIST Southeast Baptist Church will have a “Wild vacaand Wonderful Good News St tion Bible schoolfor children 4 years of age to church members can put the homeless up in their private houses, but they shouldn't let them sleep at First Southern Baptist Church, Superior Court Judge Randall L. Wilkinson said Thursday. Wilkinson granted a preliminary injunction requested by city officials, who say it will take several days to serve the order. If the minister doesn't evict the 24 homeless people, the court may find him in con- Go CONGREGATIONAL ‘The United Church of Christ Congregational will have a guest sermon by Polly Harrington, 4 freelance writer and educator, titled “Joy of Service: Mother Teresa of India and the i Salt Lake City. For more information,call 943” Wort Harringionand herfamilyrece Holladay Baptist Church's vacation Bible ‘nun for the people of Utah, The sermon is Sunschool will commence Sunday with a pre-cnday, 10:30 a.m., - at the church, ‘i 3350 Harrison, roliment barbecue at 6 p.m., and continue author of Suzie — Her BJudy ‘pbook, will make a presentation on Park News Stampede” for family night Friday, at 7 @The Sonrise 5 Baptist Church will have its vacation Bible schoo! for children 4 through 12 with the theme “God's Precious Promises,” Lake City. For more information, call 240- 5342, 2241 pm. Pioneer Sesquicentennial Activity Days” whichincludes a puppet show, pioneer games, storytellers, making crafts and activities, Monday and July 28, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the museum, 45 N. West Temple, Salt ‘oothill Park Detreachefthe the Communi a iooon Wasatch Gardens as Ss profee oe ely. Drive, Salt Lake City. The Friday session will include lunch and run until 1 p.m. For more inf o Hope Lutheran Church will have a vacation Bible school with games, music, crafts, stories, : Bol y, 7 pm, First Baptist i144 W, Columbia Lane, Provo, For pam. and July 19 from 9 amt pm. atthe Church, more information, call 374-8489 a dunk tank and horserides from7to9 Church, 2930 W. 9000 South, West Jordan. A |The St. Chad Society, a support and dis. {amily barbecue game and carnival booths will follow the Satur- cussion group for people leaving the LDS be made by church will moet Sunday, 7 p.m., St. James 4a school For more Episcopal Church, 7486 S. Union Park Ave. Monday. A $5 donation is City's ‘Silver Queen” Suzanna Bransford formation, call 569-1111. o (1809-1942), Thursday, 7 p.m., in the Fireside 2150 9:30 to noon, at the church, 460 W. Century For more information,call $66-1311 werHoorsT BOgden Women's Agiow welcomes Pamela ee eeoe ee . whelbes at aanReee ee ee er breakfast meeting focusing Shovegarden? sored ty the First Uned Method Cherch, wil re avoiding wae Oninwe tempt Meanwhile, jurors in Puller ton were being sworn in for a criminal case against Drake and the church over the church's homeless inten through day, 9 a.m, to 5 p.m. at the school, 3769 W. > gational Church and send to the address above ‘The rip code is 64109. For more information 4700 South. Taylorsville For more informs. call 466-1331 tion, call 964-2888 f . o LATTER-DAY Patrons visiting the Museum of Church His. ‘The St. Martin dePorres Catholic Church tory and Art can participate in the “Children's , S MISCELLANEOUS ‘The Salt Lake Chartetion CenterShow, tavitesfeatur: tam: Steve Archer, a “The Archer lies to # Kid's Crusade 1pm. Moun Brothers,”will perform E. 8000 tain View Christian Assembly. South, Sandy For more information, call $61. $911 t at 6 p.m, Montng the Ulrich Family, Wodnesday at 7 pm, at the «day center, 5, 700 Bast, Salt Lake City. For more information, cal) 208-2178 ? .