Relinquishing the Eleventh Hour
April 18, 2018With solemn tenderness
You apportioned our times and seasons
(While Eden embroidered itself with emeralds),
And marble campanile chimed a day
Into a thousand years.
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Inner Dialogue: James Talmage’s Choice of Science as a Career, 1876-84
April 18, 2018James E. Talmage was born to be a scientist. When he arrived in Utah lin 1876 at the age of fourteen, he was attending Brigham Young Academy within a few weeks. During the next eight…
“Is There Any Way to Escape These Difficulties?”: The Book of Mormon Studies of B.H. Roberts
April 18, 2018Dialogue 17.2 (Summer 1984): 96–105
In 1979 and 1981, members of the Roberts family gave copies of these works to the University of Utah and Brigham Young University. Roberts’s two studies, with descriptive correspondence, will be published this year by the University of Illinois Press.4
The Mormon Concept of God
April 18, 2018The conflict between the God of religious worship and the god of philosophical inquiry has plagued Judeo-Christian theology since the union of Greek philosophy with Hebrew religion in the first centuries of the Christian era.…
Fishers
April 18, 2018In the last days of summer
we walk through tall grass
to the river
long before the sun spills
Career Apostates: Reflections on the Works of Jerald and Sandra Tanner
April 18, 2018For more than two decades, Jerald and Sandra Tanner have devoted I their lives to exposing and trying to destroy Mormonism. They have succeeded in upsetting Mormons of various persuasions, largely because of their abrasive…
From Sacred Grove to Sacral Power Structure
April 18, 2018In more than 150 years, Mormonism has experienced a series of interrelated and crucial transitions, even transformations. This study de scribes five of these linked transitions as individualism to corporate dynasticism, authoritarian democracy to authoritarian…
A Survey of Current Literature: Selected Bibliography of Recent Articles
April 18, 2018From its early years on the social fringe,” U.S. News & World Report I recently told its readers, the Mormon Church “has become America’s largest and wealthiest home-grown religion by offering shelter in stormy times.”…
Expatriate
April 18, 2018The Hawaiians are surprised that we also had beaches.
In their minds we represent one vast igloo
Filled with people anxious to escape
To winter in Hawaii.
Born Again
April 18, 2018As you enter the water unsinning,
I shall repent eight years
Of watching in the dark and loving
Without turning on the light.