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Prophet by the Sea

One late afternoon just before sunset, the Prophet with white hair like the mane of a lion was walking by the sea with his friend, Fernando. They walked and talked about many things as the…

Search for an Epistemology: Three Views of Science and Religion

Dialogue 36.1 (2003): 89–108
A claim is frequently made that science and religion are not incompatible. The contention is that science and religion can be made to co-exist by compartmentalization, that is, by carefully limiting the scope of each so that neither intrudeson the sphere of influence of the other. Such an approach is folly.

To the single men of the church

who sit singly, as I do, on unkempt 
beds in dingy small rooms among their own 
litter and cast-off clothes; who slump 
against walls watching late-nite TV instead 

sonnet: on his blindness to autumn

i too consider how my days are spent 
and fret but little when like autumn’s bright
orange maples they fade and fall, my sight
is good enough to burn those maples, scent 

Toward a Mormon Theology of God the Mother

Dialogue 27.2 (Summer 1994): 15–40
It would seem that Mormons who have believed for over a hundred years in the real existence of the Goddess, the Mother in Heaven, should be far ahead of other Christians in developing a theology of God the Mother. However, our belief in her as a real person puts us at a disadvantage. If the Goddess is merely a symbol of deity, as the male God is also a symbol, then certainly God can be pictured as either male or female with equal validity.

Mormon Conversions

The songs mutate 
like a virus in my blood: 
“I Am a Child of 
God,” “Firm As the Mountains 

Beautiful Naked Women

Beautiful naked women turn up all over, 
in California they hide behind redwoods, 
in Paris they picnic on the grass. 
My doctor sends me a postcard of a plump nude