Confessions of a Suburban Househusband
April 25, 2018“Leave his diapers off for a few minutes each day,” said Tina, my wife. “It will do him good.” So I did, and that was how I came to be on my hands and knees…
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Harvest Valley
April 25, 2018This time of year in the Willamette Valley is full to bursting, glutted with the harvest. Hazelnut trees, tassled and drooping with nuts, trail their branches in the fat green rivers; grain and corn line…
A Note on Joseph Smith’s First Vision and Its Import in the Shaping of Early Mormonism
April 25, 2018Some years ago Sidney E. Mead, then professor of American church history at the University of Chicago, argued that the two live movements of the 18th century which shaped American Christianity were pietism and rationalism.[1]…
The Allegheny Sharpshooter
April 25, 2018sallies forth
garbed for the hunt
in shirt of linsey-woolsey
and moosehide moccasins
I am no monk, no flesh-thresher I,
April 25, 2018I am no monk, no flesh-thresher I,
To winnow out, by dank silence,
By hooded hunger and the raw, unflagging flail,
That Adam’s chaff, desire,
Till the husk of me lie powder on the stone.
The Deer
April 25, 2018There is little sound, only the gulls’
Sailing song, way off, and the gush
On the grass more muted now and slow.
Brother Anderson Counsels His Son the Night Before Being Sealed “For Time and All Eternity” in the Salt Lake Temple
April 25, 2018and
whatever you do, don’t
go smiling
totally into it
Among the Mormons: A Survey of Current Literature
April 25, 2018As Hemingway put it, “A writer’s problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having…
The Aaronic Order: The Development of a Modern Mormon Sect
April 25, 2018Social scientists have frequently remarked on the proliferation of religious denominations, sects and cults in the United States. Since its early history, Mormonism has spawned a large number of sects directly or indirectly. At least…
Nineteenth-Century Mormons: The New Israel
April 25, 2018The Mormons of the nineteenth century saw themselves as a new Israel very much like the old. They appropriated ancient Israel’s sentiments and traditions, and its special status as God’s covenant people. For a Christian…