A Survey of Current Dissertations
April 17, 2018“Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age,” Lord Chesterfield told his son in 1747, but “if we do not plant it while young it will give us no…
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God of Our Fathers
April 17, 2018God gave David nightmares. The flame-eyed giant hurling thunderbolts from the mountain of heaven, hair and beard blown back by the storm of righteous wrath—it was he who haunted the boy. *** David knew his father…
Grandmother Envisions Her Own Death
April 17, 2018A white pillar will glow from the sand as I die.
Those backyard trees will shake their empty pods
against the sky. My moldy body will sink
into its bed, smothered by sinners.
Winter Burial
April 17, 2018Grey clouds, March-heavy hung over
an old and mottled snow that day
we brought him there to you.
Seasoning
April 17, 2018That fine white burst of bush blossom
Has come again. Blast
ing through the winter crust
And scattering the afterbirth of spring,
The Sacred Shout
April 17, 2018One of the least known rites of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the sacred hosanna shout.
The Nursing Home
April 17, 2018My mother was eighty-four, a widow of six months, and badly crippled with arthritis in the fall of 1981. She was also virtually blind. For the past six months, her eight children had watched anxiously…
Mary Ann
April 17, 2018It was one of those crisp November days in Hershey, Pennsylvania, when I heard the news. Snuggled under a quilt, I was reading to my two young sons when the telephone interrupted us. It was…
The Joseph Smith Translation and Ancient Texts of the Bible
April 17, 2018The question this essay attempts to answer is whether the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible (JST) represents in any way a restoration of text that originally existed in ancient manuscripts but was later altered…
Divisions of the House
April 17, 2018The World Conference is the highest legislative authority of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The First Presidency of the Church is responsible for administering the laws and policies of the…