Day Dreams
April 10, 2018Man of her house, her rooms
Are haunted by dreams.
Leavened by cool morning light,
Loft become sanctum, he lolls
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A Memorable Tribute | Phyllis Barber, How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir
April 10, 2018How I Got Cultured, Phyllis Barber’s memoir of her Mormon youth and adolescence in 1950s Nevada, has won accolades too numerous to mention. It has been warmly received in publications as mainstream and established as Publishers…
Unwrapping an Obstinate Enigma | The Essential Brigham Young with a Foreword by Eugene E. Campbell
April 10, 2018Who was this man who so completely filled the Mormon and western stage for thirty years? President Brigham Young—or “Brother Brigham” to the familiar faithful—stirred the emotions of both saint and sinner, friend and foe. …
Beginning the Trek | Richard E. Turley, Victims: The LDS Church and the Mark Hofmann Case
April 10, 2018There is much to praise in the long awaited “inside” explanation of both why and how officials of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints responded to the forgery phenomena of Mark Hofmann. Utilizing…
Sole Makers
April 10, 2018I wonder if I can still heal myself?
I’ve done it once before,
back when I cut my palm open
trying to be your blood brother.
Gifts of the Spirit
April 10, 2018Brother Rice, the first counselor, says the bishop thinks the young people might be more responsive to someone who, oh, speaks a little more their language. Then he smiles, hands me the Sunday school manual,…
B.H. Roberts’s Autobiography
April 10, 2018
The B.H. Roberts Papers at the University of Utah
April 10, 2018In the spring 1969 issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought appeared Leonard Arrington’s article, ‘The Intellectual Traditions of the Latter-day Saints,” based partly on a questionnaire he had sent to “50 prominent LDS…
Intellectuals in Mormon History: An Update
April 10, 2018More than twenty-four years ago, Leonard Arrington asked some fifty prominent Mormons to identify the most important intellectuals in Mormon history. He published his findings in the spring 1969 issue of Dialogue: A Journal of…
The Man Without Sin
April 10, 2018There’s this house where
four retarded men live who
go to church on Sundays.