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.
DiaBLOGue
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
Litany
April 11, 2018All night, all day, angels
watching over me, my Lord.
And him slipping off,
letting the door close
“In Obedience There Is Peace and Joy Unspotted” | B. Carmon Hardy, Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage
April 11, 2018The prophet Joseph Smith once told Nancy Rigdon, whom he was attempting to persuade to become his plural wife, that whatever God required was right, no matter what it was (374). Smith went on to…
Women’s Place in the Encyclopedia | Daniel H. Ludlow, ed., Encyclopedia of Mormonism: The History, Doctrine, and Procedure of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
April 11, 2018When the Encyclopedia of Mormonism project was first announced with its all male board of editors, I developed a keen interest in how women’s issues would be handled and was delighted when two women were…
Toward Intellectual Anarchy | Daniel H. Ludlow, ed., Encyclopedia of Mormonism: The History, Scripture, Doctrine, and Procedure of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
April 11, 2018The Encyclopedia of Mormonism provides a great wealth of information on the history and social character of Mormonism and the structure and administration of the LDS church and its institutions, but, on the whole, as…
The Mourning After
April 11, 2018At least the kids were gone, settled among family for the next ten or twelve hours. That gave him some time to pull himself together, to sort things out before tomorrow, before the rest of…