Bodies
April 16, 2018Weight —
heavy weighting down
of airier stuff
in birth
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Women Coping | Linda Sillitoe, Sideways to the Sun
April 16, 2018What happens when a Mormon house wife, faithful to husband and church, encounters the dark side of human experience including adultery, child molestation, spouse abandonment, and divorce? In this fine first novel, Linda Sillitoe answers…
A Life Well-Shared | Margaret Rampton Munk, So Far: Poems
April 16, 2018In the Fall of 1985 DIALOGUE published Meg Munk’s suite of poems entitled, “One Year.” In a mature voice and through particular images, she dramatized her battle with cancer. In the spring of 1986, this…
God’s Hand in Mormon History | Richard O. Cowan, The Church in the Twentieth Century: The Impressive Story of the Advancing Kingdom
April 16, 2018For Richard O. Cowan, a professor of LDS history at Brigham Young University specializing in twentieth-century Mormon ism, the history of the Mormon kingdom is not only the religious success story of the last 2,000…
Seasoned Saints | Philip L. Barlow, ed., A Thoughtful Faith: Essays on Belief by Mormon Scholars
April 16, 2018I discovered early in my scholastic career why a Mormon would never produce great literature. (A good Mormon, that is.) The reason was simple, expounded with eloquence and authority by my BYU “Intro duction to Poetry”…
Mormon Magic | D. Michael Quinn, Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
April 16, 2018Until recently, most Mormon writers have been pressed onto the defensive by the insistence with which anti-Mormons have exploited every hint that Joseph Smith, Jr.’s, family practiced folk magic. Consequently, the mounting evidence for the…
Winton Night Walks
April 16, 2018At night along the canals
Dad was best.
Beside narrow dusty tractor roads
Slow dark waters,
Who Came in Second?
April 16, 2018My late father-in-law, Anchor Luke Clegg, often told the following story at family gatherings: “My direct relative, and yours too, was the second convert in the British Isles. He would have been first, but he…
Why Were Scholars Misled? What Can We Learn From This?
April 16, 2018In the May 1986 Mormon History Association meetings, a panel of historians and archivists explored the impact of the Mark Hofmann documents on the LDS and RLDS churches and views of their common origin. Soon…