There’s No Place Like Home
April 12, 2018It had been the perfect day. We had learned how to write cursive L’s and mine were the best, so Miss Handy hung my paper on the board for the rest of the class to…
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The Good Life
April 12, 2018Why do I strain for a freedom found outside,
Where worlds in time and space lie wide and full?
My room is closed and airless while the tide
Slaps up the pier and churns me in its pull.
And yet old times of weary venturing pall.
Reflections on a Bereavement
April 12, 2018My wife, Eleanor Coleman Hart, died on Christmas Eve, 24 December 1990, after an unfailingly resolute two-year struggle with systemic lupus. The forty-sixth anniversary of our wedding passed only a few days before her death.…
Jackrabbits
April 12, 2018Grandma teased us
for the time it took
to kill one jackrabbit
on our backyard picnic table.
Changes in the Revelations, 1833 to 1835
April 12, 2018Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints accept as scripture the book of Doctrine and Covenants, a compilation of revelations received by the Prophet Joseph Smith. These revelations cover a variety of…
Ecclesiastical Implications of Grace
April 12, 2018While living in Philadelphia several years ago, I served for three years as liaison from the Philadelphia Stake High Council to the Philadelphia Spanish Branch located in the Puerto Rican and black barrios of North…
Waiting
April 12, 2018The absence of a signal
is itself information,
a zero giving meaning to binary ones.
The call that doesn’t ring,
“And They Shall Be One Flesh”: Sexuality and Contemporary Mormonism
April 12, 2018Several years ago, I presented a series of guest lectures on sexuality to undergraduate nursing classes at Brigham Young University’s Salt Lake Center. My presentations were aimed at preparing students for their work with patients…
A Vision of Judas
April 12, 2018The light was too harsh
in the South. All day
I sat beneath that tree
growing darker and darker
until I was all shade.
Comments on the Theological and Philosophical Foundations of Christianity
April 12, 2018Historical Christianity is a remarkable composite of diverse religious cultures, a mixture that even today, after two millennia, is still mixing, blending things that often will not blend and fusing the unfusible. Sometimes severe, chaste,…