BYU Studies Quarterly
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Keywords
Mormon studies, laughter, scripture
Abstract
Therefore, cease form all your light speeches, from all laughter... and light-mindedness, and from all your wicked doings.
—D&C 88:121
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
—Prov. 17:22
Recommended Citation
Mahony, Diana L. and Corson, Marla D.
(2003)
"Light-Mindedness versus Lightheartedness: Conflicting Conceptions of Laughter among Latter-day Saints,"
BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 42:
Iss.
2, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol42/iss2/6