Toldot/Generations
April 9, 2018now that I’m old
and know it
I begin to glimpse
the endless line
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Mormon Angels in America: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
April 9, 2018For Mormons, the co-option of our most sacred story for the purposes of theater might at first seem blasphemous. In fact, Eugene England in his regular This People round-up of recent LDS-related books and plays…
The Divine Transmutation | John L. Brooke, The Refiner’s Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844
April 9, 2018Joseph Smith’s place in western religious history is on the verge of creative reevaluation. Two years ago American literary critic Harold Bloom’s casting of Smith as a Gnostic prophet linked by vision to the occult…
Basilica
April 9, 2018Frank’s photos—
are like his fiction—
show clean, hard lines.
Dust to Dust: A Mormon Folktale
April 9, 2018The morning promised no bright sun. No blue sky. Only dust from the desert’s chalky red soil. “Lord in heaven,” Rosalinda said to herself. She stared out the window, worried about her garden. She couldn’t…
Nei Wei
April 9, 2018Keith Larson spent the first year of his mission in the southern Taiwan port city of Kaoshiung. After a four-month stint in Tainan, central Taiwan, he was glad to be transferred south again to the…
Bathing a Child
April 9, 2018 Elbow-deep in shallow water
with porcelain pressed against my breast
I dragged the sudsy washcloth
over your squirming body
A Look at Ephesians 2:8-9
April 9, 2018Ephesians 2:8-9 (KJV) speaks of salvation coming through the grace of God: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:/ Not of works, lest any man should boast.” The interpretation of these verses is controversial.
Chaotic Matter: Eugene England’s “The Dawning of a Brighter Day”
April 9, 2018More than ten years after the original appearance of an essay might be too long to wait to respond to it, but the republication of Eugene En gland’s “Dawning of a Brighter Day: Mormon Literature after 150 years” as the inaugural essay of Wasatch Review International (vol. 1 [1992], no. 1) calls for a response.