Charm for a Sick Child
April 18, 2018we will dream now of a cave
with a figure at the entrance,
see the magic seeds she holds
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Another Birth
April 18, 2018They dream of going hack.
The bars on their beds
are fingers before a face.
Their knees rise up toward chins
Roger Across the Looking Glass
April 18, 2018The process is as invariable and explicable as the engineered logic of a machine. Yet for all its biological transparence, to Roger Talmage, educated, institutionally devout, and forty-two, the quite ordinary adjustment of his eyes…
A.C. Lambert: Teacher, Scholar, and Friend
April 18, 2018A few months ago we were saddened to learn that Asael Carlyle I Lambert had passed away. He was ninety years old and living in Los Angeles. Dr. Lambert was one of the giants to…
Being Mormon: An RLDS Response
April 18, 2018Dialogue 17.1 (Spring 1984): 106–112
To be a Mormon — in the generic use of that term — is an attitude: an attitude of uniqueness — of peculiarity — • which makes itself known in behavior, in beliefs, in relationships, in inquiries and, most of all, in religious expression.
Being Mormon: An LDS Response
April 18, 2018What does it mean to be a Mormon? Is it what you believe or how you I act? “Both,” of course, is the easy and immediate answer, but the question deserves closer scrutiny. No longer…
The Grace of the Court
April 18, 2018The night before, I had felt a sudden need to read the scriptures, something I hadn’t done in nearly three months. I stayed up until 2:30 and was asleep when Lynn called from Oakland at…
“In the Heavens Are Parents Single?”: Report No. 1 — Committee on Celestial Demographics
April 18, 2018Since the pioneering work of Orson Pratt, little advancement has been ‘made in the area we will refer to as celestial demography.
An Eternal Quest: Freedom of the Mind
April 18, 2018On 13 May 1969, Hugh B. Brown, a member of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, addressed the student body of Brigham Young University. He was eighty-five years of…
The Effect of Mormon Organizational Boundaries on Group Cohesion
April 18, 2018Approaching the Church in organizational terms requires a perspective ‘different from focusing on its spiritual role and mission. The German sociologist Georg Simmel framed the problem in this way: “On the one hand, religion stands…