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I Have Learned 5 Things

1. The sulfurous flame 
            sunbeams in corners 
                        lightning like cracked glass 
                                    the bulb of an idea 
                                                your dark eyes 

Dialogue and Difference: “I and Thou” or “We and They”?

I direct my thoughts and yours to the I-Thou model of human related ness as it is confirmed or denied in the all-too-human realm of ethnic, national, religious, and ideological differences. Any honest and wide treatment of how we behave in such circumstances is bound to cause some discomfort, since we may recognize ourselves in some of the horrible examples of non-dialogical relatedness.

Aspens

Parchmental stand aspens, 
Paper atrmeble accepts scars, 
Words healing standing parchmental 

“A Banner Is Unfurled”: Mormonism’s Ensign Peak

To the north of Salt Lake City, two or three miles from famed Temple Square, an odd, knob-shaped promontory rises above the community of Saint and gentile. Since pioneer times, it has been called Ensign…

The Struggle for Power in the Mormon Battalion

The Mormon Battalion reached San Diego in late January 1847 with five and a half months of service remaining in its one-year enlistment. Mustered by the Mormon church at the request of the U.S. government,…

Magi

Through Perean hills and Arabian desert,
pacing our journey by the pulsing star, 
we come here, finally, to this quiet shelter
that houses the holy—to Bayt al-Lahm.