Who We Are, Where We Come From
April 12, 2018Telling the truth about history is most essentially, I think, knowing who we are and where we come from. When Mormon historians began to shed additional light on the beginnings of Joseph Smith and the…
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I Am Watching Four Canada Geese
April 12, 2018in a perfect diamond of flight
slip between me and the sky, circle
toward rest and cover for the night.
The lake is a polished absurdity
Seeking the Past: Nobel Quest of Fool’s Errand | George D. Smith, ed., Faithful History: Essays on Writing Mormon History
April 12, 2018This anthology is designed for people with a professional interest in Mormon historiography as well as for the much larger number of men and women who have been intrigued or alarmed by the rhetoric about…
Measuring the Measuring Stick | Philip L. Barlow, Mormons and the Bible: The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion
April 12, 2018Even with the explosion of scholarly interest in Mormonism over the past fifteen years, students of American religion still wait for a systematic and synthetic treatment of the development of Mormon theology. Central to such…
Place and Identity in the Southwest | Robert S. McPherson, Sacred Land, Sacred View: Navajo Perceptions of the Four Corners Region
April 12, 2018Change is an inevitable though variable process in human societies and natural environments. Each generation perceives changes in their cultural universe, laments what is being lost, and wonders what will persist. They leave behind various…
Finding Our Voices | April Daniels and Carol Scott, Paperdolls: Healing from Sexual Abuse in Mormon Neighborhoods
April 12, 2018Media accounts of sexual abuse of children regularly remind us that children continue to be sexually assaulted by adults and juveniles in their communities. Almost always, the perpetrator is someone known and trusted by the child,…
Is There a New Mormon History? | D. Michael Quinn, ed., The New Mormon History: Revisionist Essays on the Past
April 12, 2018D. Michael Quinn, one of the foremost practitioners of the type of work distinguished as the “New Mormon History,” certainly thinks so. He has assembled in this volume a set of fifteen previously published essays…
Mormon Women and Families | Lawrence Foster, Women, Family, and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons
April 12, 2018In Women, Family, and Utopia, Lawrence Foster, an associate professor of Ameri can history at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, establishes two goals: to expand on his research regarding “relations between men and…
Relativity
April 12, 2018While a hummingbird scans it for wires
the red rosebud explodes in slow motion,
the two velocities firing simultaneously.
Riddled with inconsistencies, the rose is
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April 12, 2018My humble plan for the financial salvation and exaltation of every soul who has the sense to sign up I have seen a vision. I have become a new man. And boy, am I excited! Not…