These twelve essays are dedicated to the memory of the late B. West Belnap of Brigham Young University. Most of the writers have been or are associated with the College of Religious Instruction at Brigham…
At the time that Costa-Gavras’ new film, A State of Siege was cancelled at the American Film Institute’s inaugural festival at its new movie theater in Washington’s Kennedy Center, it was described as “rationalizing political…
Chloe is the last and one of the most evocative of Eric Rohmer’s “Six Moral Tales.” The previous stories include La Collectioneuse, My Night at Maud’s, Clair’s Knee, and two shorter works for television. These…
Charles Peterson is a man of history who, like a sociologist, examines the changing aspirations and problems of the Mormons who lived along the Little Colorado during the latter part of the nineteenth century. I…
The Joy of Being a Woman, a feminine companion to Win If You Will by Paul H. Dunn, could undoubtedly be used for illustrating talks and Relief Society lessons dutifully woven to bind sisters tightly…
At Christmas time I like to read the Gospels again. Partly out of tradition, no doubt, and the love of tradition. For in tradition lies much of the special charm and cheer of holidays. But…
Infinite distance: old conceit.
These hills bound sight, define the length
Our fathers, innocent of defeat,
Might seed their strength.
(to my daughter—in explanation of her name)
Balance is what we mean the name
to tell her when she’s suckled news
into her brain that birth knits her
into the nervous system of
the spastic, plastic planet,
Frontier Village, restored and furnished
with relics of ancestral time
includes live anachronisms.
So we saunter to see the buffalo, laughing,
swinging up between corral boards
and nearly boot it in the rump as we demand,
“Where’s the buffalo?—oh!”
Amy was a child when Congress passed the Edmunds Bill, assuring the end of polygamous living in Utah, but she was old enough to know that Aunt Edna was not her aunt at all but…