A few years ago I listened to a group of American missionaries who had just eaten an enormous meal at our table and were showing their appreciation by telling us how backward Australia is in…
that loneliness is like
the whole of the moon
rising in a sky so lucent,
the clouds cast shadows
Latter-day Saints are an even smaller minority in Canada than they are in the United States. To put their numbers into perspective, if Canada were California (the populations are approximately equal), the Mormon community would…
One of the by-products of the federal crusade against plural marriage in late nineteenth-century Utah is the correspondence of separated spouses which dramatically records the personal impact of this volatile period in Mormon history. Because…
Mormons in Early Victorian Britain, volume 4 in the University of Utah’s Mormon Studies series, is a significant contribution to the understanding of Mormon history in both the United States and Great Britain. As the…
A late review has the advantage of calling a good book to the attention of any one who may have missed it the first time around, and of reaffirming what time has already proved—its lasting…
Nerved sparks, the Perseids
tonight, wincing out over Loafer
Father, you taught me to name
these — each streak of fire
Tildy Elizabeth sat by the cradle, Book of Mormon open on her knee. One hand rocked absently while the other traced in painful concentration the small print, dim in the yellow lamplight. Some time ago…
When I was twenty and dewy-eyed, I visited Auschwitz. I found ghosts there. The red bricks of the camp were gritty with the black soot which was all that remained of four million people, gassed…
As anti-war demonstrations gained in size and frequency throughout the Western world during the Gulf War, it is doubtful that many Latter-day Saints took part, if experience during earlier conflicts is anything to judge by.…