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Pictures in books suggest 
That I first stood grey and white 
On short black kodak grass. 

The magpies sang all morning long that May 
To lovers in the gum leaves where they lie. 
Half my heart is half a world away. 

(25 November 1975—Los Angeles) 

Already cold, your quiet body lies, 
The ravage done, small protest to the sheet. 
Beyond your window through November skies, 
Sycamore leaves go drifting to the street.

I am honored by the invitation to write a tribute to Fawn McKay Brodie. Professor Brodie was no doubt the most widely known and read of all Mormon writers, a historian of distinction whose work…

Anticipation of a final curtain in the drama of existence, an “end” toward which history moves, has been a critical and persistent concept in Christian thought. Millennial expectations have flourished since the days of the…

Few topics seem to engage the interest of the Latter-day Saints more vigorously than that of the Second Coming of Christ. Over the years, numerous books treating this topic have issued from the Mormon press.…

Though Brigham Young sermons were often full of exaggerations, he was right on the mark when he said,  To accomplish this work there will have to be not only one temple but thousands of them,…