Remembering B. H. Roberts
April 10, 2018In my early years, I had occasional personal contact with B. H. Roberts. He was a friend of both of my grandfathers, and one of his daughters was married to my mother’s brother, with whose…
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For My Father, 1934-1990
April 10, 2018Have you noticed, then, that sound moves
differently in fall—such falling
of leaves, a fall
from warmth and
Mama and Daddy Standin’ By
April 10, 2018Best thing that ever happened
In church was when Martha
Got Nancy to sing “Summertime”
On Mother’s Day—
Free Expression: The LDS Church and Brigham Young University
April 10, 2018
In Passing To Her Fathers
April 10, 2018In Saint George, Lena McCain had cancer.
She set her house in order.
In Las Vegas, the doctors went after the cancer with a knife,
got it, watched her closely.
Patriarchal Blessings and the Routinization of Charisma
April 10, 2018
Bean Counting
April 10, 2018She adds up all the names
people have given her over the years:
‘Vain, difficult, cold.”
Someone once told her that
Anti-Christian Fundamentalism | R. A. Gilbert, Casting the First Stone: The Hypocrisy of Religious Fundamentalism and Its Threat to Society
April 10, 2018R. A. Gilbert’s book, Casting the First Stone, is one of an increasing number of written responses to uninformed attacks by Fundamentalists against new religious movements and any other religious group which does not fit…
Non-Traditional Christianity | Daniel C. Peterson and Stephen D. Ricks, Offenders for a Word: How Anti-Mormons Play Word Games to Attack the Latter-day Saints
April 10, 2018Although Hugh Nibley has often argued that there is no such a thing as a Mormon theology (theology being intrinsically incompatible with continuous revelation), a number of Nibley’s followers have produced what in any other…