Night Myths
April 11, 2018Sleepless with fever,
under one small lamp you stared
at a cherry wood cabinet, dark whorls
spiraled like galaxies and polished
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Liberal Spirituality: A Personal Odyssey
April 11, 2018“Liberal spirituality” is the title and theme of this essay. A double entendre is intended—suggesting the interdependence of a free and abundant spiritual life. My aim is to explore the nature and possibilities of liberal spirituality by reflecting on some of the key experiences and major ideas that have shaped my philosophy. I am concerned here with the essential values at the core of religious experience, a state of mind and an approach to life. The Mormon church has been but one of the anvils against which I have forged my identity.
Notes for a Son, 19, Living Abroad
April 11, 2018Often when entering sleep
I start awake, your form having drifted
into vision, your name embedded
in the thickness of my tongue.
Snowy Night
April 11, 2018Whose poem this is, I think I know—
New England bard of spring and snow,
But eighth-grade teachers don’t explain
The depths to which the poets go.
Dialogue Toward Forgiveness: A Supporting View
April 11, 2018Mine is the interesting challenge to comment on “The LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership: A Contemporary Chronology/’ The bill of particulars that Lavina Fielding Anderson has presented is comprehensive and disturbing, her recommendations are…
Becoming a Writer
April 11, 2018Early on, in class, the smooth new pencils,
the ice-white paper, copper-bladed rulers,
all spoke order, a progression of lines.
The LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership: A Contemporary Chronology
April 11, 2018Dialogue 26.1 (Spring 1993): 23–82
The clash between obedience to ecclesiastical authority and the integrity of individual conscience is certainly not one upon which Mormonism has a monopoly. But the past two decades have seen accelerating tensions in the relationship between the institutional church and the two overlapping subcommunities I claim—intellectuals and feminists.
Breadcrumbs
April 11, 2018The fairytales were wrong:
to identify big feet
with wicked stepsisters, ugly with unloved,
princes and frogs with anything
Exercising the Priesthood
April 11, 2018A Wednesday evening
down in the back
of the chapel, we played
King of the Mountain on the
Postcard
April 11, 2018I debated hours, whether to send you a kiss
by the river or the overabundant lips
of a Rosetti madonna. You get both: See
the pansies the madonna holds? That’s how I know