“If there is anything virtuous, lovely . . . we seek after these things.” Granted. But loveliness by what criteria? We in the Church often presume a common aesthetic; or when conflicts in judgment arise—whether…
Like an irresistible green vegetation
easing over everything in time,
a sense of comfort crept over my mother,
weaving into her slowly tendrils of death.
“Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem—for purely religious purposes, of course—to know more about iniquity than the Unregenerate.” Rudyard Kipling, Witches of the Night When the rabbits built Hilltown, they had a special…
I hear faded trumpet sounds of summer
and fill my arms with sleepy wildflowers,
hold them close, feel the damp,
smell the last fragrance.
Paradise pendant from a golden chain
opal pendant paradise
swirling blue and green
through white cloud streaks:
golden chain gleaming on the breast of God.
Edgar to Gloucester in King Lear: Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. June 1982 I grew up in a safe valley. The years five through twelve, when we are most sensuously…
A title like that might indicate that I’m already half through. But it needed to be long to convey something of a lurid past that calls for “confessions.” “More perfect order within” suggests both the…
Dialogue 16.4 (Winter 1983): 74 – 90
This paper attempts to throw some new light on the history of this Mormon connected Egyptiana since 1848 (the close of the Mormon era in Nauvoo) and to suggest how and where more of these antiquities might be found.
I readily admit that the topic of “faithful history” may gain more by praying for the demise of the debate than by trying to provide life-extending arguments or by seeking to resurrect it. However, I…
No branch of study, academic or popular, penetrates as deeply into man’s intuitive life or mirrors his contemplative self as clearly as folklore. Folklore lays bare man’s myriad fears and anxieties, while at the same…