Hallelujah!
April 13, 2018I took my violin and my music from the back of the car and listened to my heels tap on the asphalt as I walked across the parking lot. It was an icy December night,…
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Fatherless Child
April 13, 2018As I stood in the receiving line at my daughter’s wedding last May, a neighbor drew me aside. “Have you seen Janet recently?” she asked, referring to her eldest, unmarried daughter. “No,” I said. “Well,…
A Jew Among Mormons
April 13, 2018In the fall of 1990, I was asked to speak to an undergraduate honors seminar at Utah State University about being a Jew among Mor mons. I warned the student assigned the task of recruiting…
The Hero Woman
April 13, 2018When the days drag on like TV reruns,
The Hero Woman conies.
She walks in with long strides from the hips.
She keeps her eyes on the horizon.
Bearing Out Crosses Gracefully: Sex and the Single Mormon
April 13, 2018In the more than five years I have served as bishop of a singles’ ward, sexual transgression has been the most pervasive, persistent, and painful problem I have had to deal with. Scarcely a week…
Patchwork
April 13, 2018The fields south of Salt Lake
Must be old.
From the air, in October,
They lie barren, empty,
Mormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: Ethnicity, Diversity, and Conflict
April 13, 2018When I was a child growing up in a Carbon County mining town in the 1920s, I would pass the Greek coffeehouses on Main Street after attending Greek school. Sitting inside were off-shift miners and…
Mormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: A Reorganized Church Perspective
April 13, 2018There was a time when one could identify a sort of “mainline” religious configuration in the United States.
Mormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: An Australian Viewpoint
April 13, 2018During a history of religion class I attended at Sydney University a few years ago, another student asked the lecturer when the Mormons first arrived in Australia. He didn’t know and, looking round, asked, “Does…
Mormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: Mormonism and the Challenge of the Mainline
April 13, 2018In some ways, Mormonism looks in 1991 very much mainline. Yet dis cussing the challenge of this new social status rests on two assumptions: that Mormonism actually is a mainline religion, and that as a…