Mary’s Response and Mine
April 27, 2018At 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…
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Near an Abandoned Canal Bridge in Southern Utah
April 27, 2018Infinite distance: old conceit.
These hills bound sight, define the length
Our fathers, innocent of defeat,
Might seed their strength.
Meadow
April 27, 2018(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,
The Buffalo and the Dentist
April 27, 2018 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!”
The Willows
April 27, 2018Amy 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…
Goodbye to Poplarhaven
April 27, 2018Paradise lost, according to Marcel Proust, is the only real paradise. Proust’s lost Eden was Illiers-Combray, a village whose medieval church tower and encircling wall gave to his childhood, by their great age, a sense…
Mormon Archaeology in the 1970s: A New Decade, A New Approach
April 27, 2018Both within and without the LDS Church Latter-day Saint archaeologists traditionally have been regarded as scriptural archaeologists. Although this was prob ably accurate through the 1950s, in the past decade a new generation of Mormon…
Mormons and Archaeology: An Outside View
April 27, 2018“Mormonism” must surely be the only major religious movement whose founder was fascinated by archaeology and whose members are imbued with a mystique based upon archaeological findings.[1] Because of this element of faith, scientists who are not Mormons have…
Why the Coleville Tabernacle Had to be Razed: Principles Governing Mormon Architecture
April 27, 2018Mormonism has been subject to rapid renovation since its founding. The Prophet Joseph made it quite clear that God’s revelations were continual and that if things were withheld for the moment, it was because His…
Mormon World View and American Culture
April 27, 2018Neither the scholars nor the Mormons themselves have been able to come to agreement about the relationship between the life of the LDS people in this country and American lifeways. The views of outside observers…