Guilt
May 4, 2018I have no vulture sins, God,That overhang my sky, To climb, grey-feathering the air,And swoop carnivorously. It’s just the tiny sins, God, That from memory appear Like tedious buzzing flies to dartLike static through my prayer.
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Death
May 4, 2018Death is the great forget, they said,A mindless, restful leaving Of all consciousness and careIn a vast unweaving. And so I waited, cramped and still,For approaching Death to bringForgetfulness—but all he broughtWas a huge remembering.
Ritual
May 4, 2018Why ritual? May I not receiveChrist without burialBy water? If I remember That He bled, If I believe, What need for Sacramental bread? Only this I know: All cries out For form — No impulse Can rest Until somehow It is manifest. Even my spirit, Housed in heaven,Was…
Creation
May 4, 2018God may have his presencein silence only, made so that a man may have space and timeto make himself himself.Whatever is is lost — but the unmade silencesteach hope, and possibility,and all the virtues God gave men to make gods…
Faith
May 4, 2018Sacramental hours cross this chapel of infinity where the arch of the brain dreams horror.And no one comes. Within the waiting shadows the silence says wait: the darkness is a piece of a piece in the rapture of even being. But no…
Mormonism and the American Way: A Response
May 4, 2018Let me begin by congratulating the editors and founders of Dialogue for their intellectual daring and integrity in the handling of this journal. And I want to thank them for inviting considered commentary on my…
Each Sect the Sect to End All Sects
May 4, 2018It is not only refreshing in itself but also an occasion for rejoicing by all serious students of American religious history that Mario S. De Pillis is recalling our attention to the historical study of…
Taking Mormonism Seriously
May 4, 2018In his article on the quest for authority in early Mormonism, Mario De Pillis contends that “the question of the historical origins of Mormonism must ever remain central” in any exchange between Mormons and non-Mormons.…
Every Soul Has Its South
May 4, 2018Dialogue 1.2 (Summer 1966): 72–79
In this important article in one of the earliest Dialogue issues, Keller says “I went because I was frankly worried: worried that my wife and children should find me slipping after talking intense brotherhood, worried that the church members I led and taught should know where the doctrine but not the action in life is, worried that the students I counseled and read and philosophized with where I taught should reach for meaning for their lives and find no guts, worried in fact that I should somehow while propagating and preaching the Kingdom of God miss it, miss it altogether. The rest was nonsense.”
Religion and Ultimate Concern: An Encounter with Paul Tillich’s Theology
May 4, 2018Paul Tillich,[1] the well-known German-American Protestant philosophical theologian, died on October 23, 1965, at the age of seventy-nine. I experienced a deep sense of personal loss upon hearing of his death. The man with whose…