Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Eugene England Memorial Personal Essay Contest, sponsored by the Eugene England Foundation. The contest this year had many especially good essays.

1st Place: “The Living and the Telling,” by Lisa Torcasso Downing.

2nd Place: “On Understanding,” by Travis Washburn

3rd Place: “Hosannas at Glide Memorial Church,” by Bob Rees

Honorable Mentions:

“With Desire Have I Desired to Wrestle this Wrestle,” by Harlow Soderborg Clark

“Lessons in Mormon Modernism, or How I Learned to Love the Provo and Ogden Temples,” by Alan B. Barnett