In Immortal for Quite Some Time, Scott Abbott meditates on his brother’s death. That Abbott comes from a devoted Mormon family and that his brother was gay and died of AIDS is the tagline that…
Introductory texts often face the challenge of which topics to cover and how much detail to include. In Mormonism for Beginners, author Stephen Carter and illustrator Jett Atwood strike the perfect balance between comprehensive survey…
The canyon is in the pines,
you find it there in sharps and flats,
rush at the edge, a thousand
improvisations of rain, needles, light fall.
One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly: The Art of Seeking God is a collection of short missives—poems, essays, and autobiographical sketches— grouped loosely and thematically into thirteen sections and an epilogue. Ashley Mae Hoiland…
Five kings fell when Joshua prayed first for Gibeon sun
Then moonlight in the valley of Ajalon to stay slant and
Still beam; freeze a span of time beyond its allotted measure.
Bishop warned Brock Hartman ahead of time. “They’ll ask for a food order.” He opened a desk drawer and took out a binder filled with requisitions for the storehouse. “But they have a decent income…
The gaze of the girl on the cover of Eric Freeze’s short story collection arrested me—stopped me. Her eyes, full of hostility, told me that if I opened the book, I would be intruding. Her…
Dear Holy (one?) I hope you are home for this.
Tell me the name of your name. For this
I am on my knees (though I am closed
still. Bruised.) But I have come for this.
When Danny DiLorenzo got up to speak I was thinking about how I could loosen my tie. My mother makes me wear one, and after an hour my body fights back. I stand in front…
Before the black suits,
before the string of pearls
you will be in your bedroom slippers, steel woolling the pans.
Your coveralls, your boots, mucking out stalls.