Ezra Taft Benson and Mormon Political Conflicts
April 11, 2018From the 1950s to the 1980s Ezra Taft Benson was at the center of a series of political conflicts within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1943 he became a member of…
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Decoration Day
April 11, 2018No funeral today, but the town
has business at its cemetery.
Dust leads the procession;
handles of rakes and hoes protrude
Day Dreams
April 10, 2018Man of her house, her rooms
Are haunted by dreams.
Leavened by cool morning light,
Loft become sanctum, he lolls
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, 2018Less than one year before his death in 1933 at the age of seventy-six, Brigham H. Roberts began the bittersweet task of composing his autobiography (which was finally published nearly sixty years later by Signature…
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…