Leave of Absence
April 10, 2018walk out and arrive
near the lake—
any route taken
leads eventually
to this
DiaBLOGue
You Are Not Alone: A Plea for Understanding the Homosexual Condition
April 10, 2018Dialogue 26.3 (Fall 1993): 119–140
In fall 1993, TJ O’Brian wrote, “You are Not Alone: A Please for Understanding the Homosexual Condition.” O’Brian was a gay man and this esay addresses how church members should treat LGBT members. He points to Jan Stout’s article among other influential pieces that were beginning to soften LDS attitudes and change practices in the early 90s. But he also notes several examples of terrible things that LDS members were still saying and doing, not including an imfamous homophobic rant from Orson Scott Card in Sunstone magazine in 1990.
Hannah Grover Hegsted and Post-Manifesto Plural Marriage
April 10, 2018Wilford Woodruff’s manifesto of 1890 declared that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was “not teaching polygamy or plural marriage, nor permitting any person to enter into its practice.” After the issuance of…
Resurrection
April 10, 2018One gunmetal day, late fall,
a fat shabby robin tired
of flying in her natural world,
desired to swoop across our couch,
The Ordeal of Lowry Nelson and the Mis-spoken Word
April 10, 2018On 8 February 1979 Lowry Nelson wrote to me about his operation. “At about one p.m. I experienced a seizure which racked my torso with terrible pain. I could think of no other thing but…
Our Fecundity
April 10, 2018What have we done?
This wrinkled child
did not ask for entry;
it answered our call
B.H. Roberts’s Studies of the Book of Mormon
April 10, 2018When I agreed to edit the work B. H. Roberts: Studies of the Book of Mormon, it was my intention to follow as faithfully as possible the explicit duty of any editor—to prepare the literary…
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…
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
Does Paying Tithing Make You a Voting Shareholder? BYU’s Worldwide Board of Trustees
April 10, 2018The idea for this essay came from Lu Ann F. Snyder, a delightfully sardonic being who is secretary to the provost at Brigham Young University. When LDS church members call the provost’s office wanting this…