Exercising the Priesthood
April 11, 2018A Wednesday evening
down in the back
of the chapel, we played
King of the Mountain on the
DiaBLOGue
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…
Household of Faith
April 11, 2018From where we sat on the fourth pew
the three square windows looked like cubes
of shimmery gold
vertically stacked
The Identity of Jacob’s Opponent: Wrestling with Ambiguity in Genesis 32:32
April 11, 2018Who is the “man” Jacob wrestles at the ford of the Jabbok? Critical exegesis has traditionally identified him as an angel, with reliance upon ample evidence in the text: he appears out of nowhere and just as mysteriously disappears; he dislocates Jacob’s hip at a touch; and Jacob himself, at the end of the episode, identifies his opponent as divine: “I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved” (Gen. 32:30).
God With Us
April 11, 2018At the baptismal Erma sings “Que grande es El,”
her voice breaking,
and the woman she has brought to Jesus,
clothed in white on the front row, weeps.