The Virgin Mary Confronts Mary of Magdala
April 13, 2018Don’t say that.
I never called you whore.
It’s a dream word I never knew.
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The Political Background of the Woodruff Manifesto
April 13, 2018Dialogue 24.3 (Fall 1991): 21–39
Lyman discusses the political pressures from the United Government which led to the church issuing the First Manifesto.
“Almost Like Us”: The American Socialization of Australian Converts
April 13, 2018A 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…
How Could We Have Known
April 13, 2018that loneliness is like
the whole of the moon
rising in a sky so lucent,
the clouds cast shadows
From “Zion’s Attic” | Brigham Y. Card, Herbert C. Northcott, John E. Foster, Howard Palmer, and George K. Jarvis, eds., The Mormon Presence in Canada
April 13, 2018Latter-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…
Heloise and Abelard | Constance L. Lieber and John Sillito, eds., Letters from Exile, The Correspondence of Martha Hughes Cannon and Angus M. Cannon
April 13, 2018One 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…
The Rise of the Church in Great Britain | Richard L. Jensen and Malcolm R. Thorp, eds., Mormons in Early Victorian Britain
April 13, 2018Mormons 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…
Humor and Pathos: Stories of the Mormon Diaspora | Neal Chandler, Benediction: A Book of Stories
April 13, 2018A 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…
The Perseids
April 13, 2018Nerved sparks, the Perseids
tonight, wincing out over Loafer
Father, you taught me to name
these — each streak of fire
They Did Go Forth
April 13, 2018Tildy 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…