Cliff Dwellings
April 14, 2018Here, rock has a soft face
and wind moves above like spirit.
I listen down the long slant
of switchback trails, steps carved
where red rock accordions through the canyon.
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Evan Mecham: Humor in Arizona Politics
April 14, 2018Through the spring and summer of 1987, Arizona residents had a wonderful time laughing about their newly elected governor, Evan Mecham. Mon day mornings were brighter because people brought to work new jokes they had…
The Holy War Surrounding Evan Mecham
April 14, 2018While I am not a political scientist, sociologist, or historian, I am one of many Arizona Latter-day Saints who will never forget Evan Mecham or the “Holy War” of public opinion that surrounded his governorship…
Divorce
April 14, 2018With the heat at the end of August,
I am glad I sleep alone
And roll over on your side of the bed
Where the sheets are still cool.
Lindon Cannery, November 12, 1982
April 14, 2018These are apples picked by the pure
In heart, end of the harvest apples,
Juice apples — but apples.
And if a worm, or mold or frost
Christ and the Constitution: Toward a Mormon Jurisprudence
April 14, 2018In 1987 Americans celebrated the 200th anniversary of the United States Constitution. Topics previously confined to legal and philosophical journals became the subject of more common discourse. Nowhere was this development more evident than in…
Why Nephi Killed Laban: Reflections on the Truth of the Book of Mormon
April 14, 2018Until recently, attempts to vindicate the central claim of the Book of Mormon—that it is a divinely inspired book based on the history of an ancient culture—have focused mainly on external evidences. Such attempts have…
Top Kingdom: The Mormon Race for the Celestial Gates
April 14, 2018It was a Saturday, but it was someone’s birthday, and so against my better judgment I went shopping with several of my children at Price Savers in Provo, Utah. The parking lot was crowded, almost…
Living the Principle | Jessie L. Embry, Mormon Polygamous Families: Life in the Principle
April 14, 2018Unfortunately 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…
Reply to “Forever Tentative”
April 14, 2018I 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…