Sleeping on Wood
April 7, 2018The blue ice is melting
off the high ridge,
draining down through the trees.
The blade of rock darkens in the sun.
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Sterling Moss McMurrin: A Philosopher in Action
April 7, 2018Sterling M. McMurrin, a man of letters, has spent most of his life in the world of affairs. A distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of Utah for four decades, he held key academic…
RELEASE: A Moment
April 7, 2018I did not plan survival or otherwise
craving absence for so long
so when awakened that snowless night
The Freeway
April 7, 2018is two currents of light on the hill.
One drains into the western sky,
the other, into the maw of rock behind me.
I am a dazzled part of light that opens
Unanswered Questions | Grant Underwood, The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism
April 7, 2018Joseph Smith looked forward to a millennium when, according to the 11th Article of Faith, “Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon this the American continent and Christ will reign personally.” But Smith was…
Can You Change? | Erin Eldridge, Born That Way? A True Story of Overcoming Same-Sex Attraction
April 7, 2018Born That Way? asks a question about the origins of homosexuality, readily answers it in the affirmative, then turns to the author’s, and the church’s, real thesis: You can change your same-sex attraction and “life…
The Triumph of Conservative Biblical Criticism | Philip L. Barlow, Mormons and the Bible: The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion
April 7, 2018The goal of Mormons and the Bible, according to author Phil Barlow, is “to sketch, through pivotal figures, the main developing lines of LDS biblical usage.” The figures discussed are important thinkers and writers, and…
How Things Look from the Other Side of the Lake
April 7, 2018Put water between the highway and yourself;
put a fence too, and some cows to graze.
For as long as you sit on this rock,
you are not driving north or south,
Cereal Polygamy
April 7, 2018One of his had just spilled
some Cheerios, and one of hers
was griping over the Grapenuts.
He was about to holler
Rapture
April 7, 2018Patty Lou sat on her green vinyl sofa, her legs crossed, and thumbed through the daily Brookhaven newspaper. She glanced over at Robert, her thirty-year-old grandson, sitting on the brown vinyl sofa, reading the Jackson…