Unfortunately but undeniably, the practice of polygamy is closely associated in the popular mind with the Mormons, fascinating both scholars and casual readers, generating a plethora of anecdotal studies, and resulting in many oversimplifications and…
I wish to thank Charles Boyd for bringing to light some additional material relevant to the topics discussed in my article on science and Mormonism. I will briefly respond to some of the issues he…
I was stimulated, concerned, and saddened simultaneously as I read David Bailey’s article in DIALOGUE (Summer 1988) and reread Richard Pearson Smith’s Spring 1986 article, both discussing science and the LDS Church. I was stimulated…
On 21 May 1839, Joseph Smith introduced an unusual entry in his journal history, writing, “To show the feelings of that long scattered branch of the house of Israel, the Jews, I here quote a…
Someone went shooting rabbits last night
blasting any flesh too slow to dodge.
I track the powdered ground until I toe
a scarlet gash melted to concrete.
José Luís was sick. That was why Michelle and Renata stopped by to see him on their way home from missionary zone meeting. They walked with Nielsen, his companion, who had gone to the meeting…
It is a morning flight. We have gained altitude and are somewhere over the Colorado Rockies. Below, through breaks in the clouds, a thin film of early snowfall covers the mountaintops like a veil. High…
Out of the cold Christmas streets
we climb to an old woman
raising her scarfed face to us,
scarred and hollow-nosed,
My friend’s two-year-old loves the stories in books. He loves them so much that sometimes he takes a book from his mother’s hands, places it on the floor, and tries to step into the story.…