Just Enough Truth for Christmastime
April 14, 2018In a couple of weeks, I’ll pack up my truck and with my roommate head for Utah. We’ll be there the week before Christmas, skiing and visiting friends and family. We both bought new skis…
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Going Home
April 14, 2018“Walk,” scold your doctors, but you snort
that it will take a cold day in hell
to make you shuffle from room to room
like some old man. So here I am,
Cancer: Fear, Suffering, and the Need for Support
April 14, 2018Fear, suffering, and a need for support are part of the experience of every person with cancer, but people are often uncomfortable with and shy away from these human emotions, which seem like admissions of…
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Spiritualism and “New Religions”
April 14, 2018It has been observed that “many who look to Sherlock Holmes as the supreme literary spokesman for rationalism feel dismay and bewilderment about his creator having become a leading champion of a doctrine that seems…
The Grammar of Inequity
April 14, 2018Dialogue 23.4 (Winter 1990): 83–96
This essay explores some of the strengths of deliberately choosing
to relate to our world with gender-inclusive language in three areas
On Being Male and Melchizedek
April 14, 2018On 27 July 1989, in the middle of the night, two people stopped their truck on our street, watched until they thought we were in bed, then ran across our front yard, threw a grenade-sized…
Mormon Women and the Right to Wage Work
April 14, 2018Dialogue 23.4 (Winter 1990): 47–82
In this essay, I will analyze recent Church discourse against a pattern of constricting employment options for women and will discuss the implications of that pattern.
Illness in the Family
April 14, 2018One of the kids was sick, so his ex came over.
“How are you doing?” she said.
(That’s what she always said.)
The Concept of Grace in Christian Thought
April 14, 2018The concept of grace and its relation to individual salvation is prob ably the most debated issue in the history of Christian thought. The list of combatants is virtually a Who’s Who in Christian thought:…
A Reasonable Approach to History and Faith | Richard D. Poll, History and Faith: Reflections of a Mormon Historian
April 14, 2018Richard Poll’s to the study of Mormon history is significant. As a scholar and teacher, he has influenced many for decades. In this collection of ten essays, he reflects on his personal experience as a…