Sacrament Prayer
April 11, 2018It’s the simplicity I like, no pulpit thunder,
no fiery “Thou shalt nots” rattling the soul.
A set prayer, phrases you can roll around
your mouth all week, then string together
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Each in Her Own Time: Four Zinas
April 11, 2018A family story provides an image which well expresses Zina Young Card. On the portico over the main entrance to the Lion House, built by her father Brigham Young for his large family, rests the…
Brando
April 11, 2018Marlon Brando’s such a babe in Guys and Dolls,
it’s an ideal, makes you feel
positively reverent, same as orange blossoms,
the way they delicately ask to seduce
Warren Travels With His Father
April 11, 2018in the
dense Montana heat, the BLM vehicle musty
and smelling of oil, sweat, and age.
A Strange Phenomena: Ernest L. Wilkinson, the LDS Church, and Utah Politics
April 11, 2018For Ernest Leroy Wilkinson, successful Washington, D.C., lawyer and seventh president of Brigham Young University, campaign politics was a game he could never master. From his rowdy youth in Ogden, Utah’s notorious Hell’s Half-Acre district, where blind eyes turned to cock-fighting and bootlegging, he had been fascinated by the nature and use of power. By the time he was fifty, he had secured a string of hard-won national victories as a tenacious and intimidating legalist. But the lure of politics remained the one attraction, despite other professional and personal accomplishments, he could not resist.
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…
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. …