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Thaddeus of Warsaw and the Book of Mormon: A Symposium

July 1, 2025

CLEO: Welcome, speakers and selected guests. Please make sure you are muted. We hope you’ve brought your own beverages to the symposium!

Among many claimants for possible literary influence on the Book of Mormon (1830), no one that we know of has yet nominated Thaddeus of Warsaw (1803), published in four volumes by the English novelist Jane Porter (1775–1850). I will present the case at length, and then invite responses from Miranda and Bauer.

A Name of Her Own

July 1, 2025

BUT, you may say, no other name matters—what has naming got to do with personal salvation? I will try to explain.[1] Over many years, I’ve made a point to list the names I find in…

THE WIDOWER

April 22, 2025

Note: This article one of the special web-only series and was printed later in this issue.

The Newlyweds

April 22, 2025

Note: This article one of the special web-only series and was printed later in this issue.

Earl Wunderli Responds

April 22, 2025

Note: This article one of the special web-only series and a portion of it was printed in this issue.

Ezekiel in Walmart

April 16, 2025

Bread aisle for tortillas          an infant’s hand around my finger                    sold-out souls                              sharing beans and lentils                                        in Babylon, but I’ve been warned, I think.          Sand spitting in the wind                    sun-faded advertisements for                              lip balm modeled…

Dowser’s Prayer

April 16, 2025

I am religious
the way small desert towns
are named after water;
eleven or twenty worn buildings,
brown hills, dust.