For Our Consummate Passover
May 4, 2018the sacrament is loosed;
the trays go as a fleet of grace
into our garnered sea
of lap and hand,
and this envoy,
this ark of my covenant
lilts over me: a gentle craft
riddled with remembrance
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Crucifixion in Judea
May 4, 2018The myth and the reality convey the sign:
INRI, but we in the distance of history,
Precise and limitless, survey and then define
His suffering again, for our consistory.
We know in the analogues of formulative speech
That Pretonious drove Him down against the cross
And split His palms where they could reach.
Crimen est actio before this miracle of dross.
A Translation of Paul Valery’s “Ebauche D’un Serpent”: Sketch of a Serpent
May 4, 2018In the tree, the soft breeze cradles
The viper that I wear.
A smile, where the fang strikes
Appetites into flame,
Drifts, like a prowler, through the Garden,
And my emerald mask unwinds
A split tongue into the blue. . .
A beast, a cunning beast,
And my venom is vile—but it leaves
Wise hemlock far behind!
A Translation of Paul Valery’s “Ebauche D’un Serpent”: Introduction
May 4, 2018Mormon theology denies the orthodox Christian doctrines of Creation and the Fall: it teaches that not only God has independent being within himself, but also the essential intelligence of each man (which is genuinely related…
“Man” and the Telefinalist Trap
May 4, 2018Far too often, I suspect, when people begin to talk about men, their talk wells up out of strong feelings and emotional views and such talk pricks us deeply if we have contrary views. After…
The Moral Dimensions of Man: A Scriptural View
May 4, 2018Like beauty, the moral nature of man is in the eye of the beholder; there is no one description of that nature that will prove acceptable to everyone. The view presented in this article is…
A Mormon Concept of Man
May 4, 2018I Mormonism has often been described as the most completely indigenous of all the religions originating in America. The Mormon movement has been called the typical American religious movement. Mormons do not object to these…
The Accommodation of Mormonism and Politico-Economic Reality
May 4, 2018One of the greatest challenges facing the membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the accommodation of revealed, eternal gospel principles with contemporary political and economic institutions. Accommodation can mean one…
Prospects for the Study of the Book of Mormon as a Work of American Literature
May 4, 2018Dialogue 3.1 (Spring 1970): 42–45
No one will want to deny that the Book of Mormon has been a book
of considerable impact and importance in America, insofar as it has
affected the lives of many millions of citizens; yet it has never really been
counted in the canon of American literature.
Mormon Architecture Today: The Temple as a Symbol
May 3, 2018Dialogue 3.1 (1968): 9–19
Bergsma argues that, to anybody passing by the temple, even if they are not a member, that the temple stands as a a symbol of our devotion to the faith