Border Crossings
April 10, 2018It happened again as I was walking through the New Hampshire woods with a woman I knew only slightly. We had been chatting amiably when the words “Mormon feminist” escaped my mouth. From the expression…
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The Burden of Proof | Ron Schow, Wayne Schow, and Marybeth Raynes, eds., Peculiar People: Mormons and Same-sex Orientation, and AMCAP Journal, Volume 19
April 10, 2018Having sold out its two cloth printings, Peculiar People: Mormons and Same-sex Orientation is now available in paperback. First published in 1991 by Signature Books and edited by Ron Schow, Wayne Schow, and Marybeth Raynes, it…
Memory and Familiarity | Thomas Edward Cheney, Voices from the Bottom of the Bowl: A Folk History of Teton Valley, Idaho, from 1823-1952
April 10, 2018This collection of reminiscences about life in a tiny southern Idaho com munity has such an authentic flavor of small-town Mormon country, a flavor which I did not experience first-hand but at a second-generation level…
Loose Ends That Defy Explanation | Robert Kent Fielding, The Unsolicited Chronicler: An Account of the Gunnison Massacre. Its Causes and Consequences
April 10, 2018After fourteen years of “pains taking historical detective work on the Gunnison Massacre” (see dust jacket), Robert Kent Fielding has concluded that the history of the Mormons between 1847 and 1859 has not been dealt…
The Temple: Historical Origins and Religious Value
April 10, 2018Dialogue 27.3 (1994): 289–298
Over time Joseph Smith changed his stance on freemasonary, which led to him being included as part of the group. Some of the common aspects of freemasonry introduced into the endowment ceremony.
A Courtship
April 10, 2018I remember the great bear
circling the blue night,
the black juniper and no motion.
On X-ing
April 10, 2018crossed out—an inexact word in typescript
but not erased
left unused—an unread book
but not unneeded
My mama’s hands
April 10, 2018can hold eight eggs
when she walks from the
refrigerator to the stove,
bacon fat popping out
