The Next Weird Sister Builds a Dog Run
April 13, 2018With fortune’s damned
quarreling smile,
the neighbors complain
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I Married a Mormon and Lived to Tell This Tale: East Meets West
April 13, 2018I have enthusiastically accepted the invitation to share my experiences as a “cultural Jew” married to a “cultural Mormon.” Kenneth and I have been married almost twenty-three years. I have lived in Salt Lake City since 1971 and before that for nine months when we were first married.
I Married a Mormon and Lived to Tell This Tale: Through a Stained-Glass Window
April 13, 2018Let me start by saying that I did not pick the title for this panel —I am not yet convinced that I have survived the experience intact. How ever, after more than fifteen years of…
I Married a Mormon and Lived to Tell This Tale: “To Celebrate the Marriage Feast Which Has No End”
April 13, 2018Friends often ask me what it is like to be an active Lutheran layperson married to an active Latter-day Saint. I think I can best describe my marriage experience by addressing my comments to my…
I Married a Mormon and Lived to Tell This Tale: Introductory Remarks
April 13, 2018Members of other religions, or persons with no religious affiliation, take on special challenges when they marry Latter-day Saints. In addition to the same problems any inter-faith marriage might encounter—conflicts over church attendance, child-rearing, value…
Transformation
April 13, 2018I had wanted your wife
to be born to the graces,
elegantly muted
in dove-gray and gloves,
to take tea from fine china,
walk perfumed in silk.
“A Profound Sense of Community”: Mormon Values in Wallace Stegner’s Recapitulation
April 13, 2018In his carefully crafted and distinguished novel Recapitulation (1979), Wallace Stegner, Iowa-born, Saskatchewan-reared, but Utah-formed, joins his protagonist Bruce Mason on a brief visit to Salt Lake City some forty-five years after leaving home. The seventy-ish Mason, now a successful lawyer, distinguished internationalist and former ambassador, returns to the city of his youth and young manhood to arrange for the burial of his Aunt Margaret. To his surprise, his Gentile return to Zion releases—through an outpouring of nostalgia, memories, dreams and fantasies—the ghosts of unresolved conflicts which have haunted him, consciously and subconsciously, from those early years.
A Call Before the Obituary
April 13, 2018His name, distant to me,
opened your mouth to blackness.
It seemed you laughed before
the half-crow caw fell out.
The Temple in Zion: A Reorganized Perspective on a Latter Day Saint Institution
April 13, 2018Dialogue 24.1 (Spring 1991): 86–98
In preparation for the Independence Temple that was dedicated in 1994, an RLDS member shares ideas about temples in general.
Island Spring
April 13, 2018Always she is there on that far island
in my mind, where it is always night,
and the moon tears into a world of leaves,
and is torn. A child, she steps