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Bread: A Returning
April 7, 2018In the hayfields are loaves
to be lined along barns.
Like monuments to a lost art
they have browned in the summer heat,
Dancing Through the Doctrine: Observations on Religion and Feminism
April 7, 2018Dialogue 28.3 (Fall 1995): 1–12
As American feminist thinkers and organizers, we’ve walked a long road since then, a road that has led us farther and farther away from religious discourse and Christian justification. Our reasons have been good: We didn’t want to limit or exclude. We didn’t want to direct all feminists down a single philosophical path.
The Statue of Brigham Young at South Temple and Main, Salt Lake City
April 7, 2018The cupping hand cradles the winds
that whir like crickets
beneath the swoop of traffic lamps.
The legs like stumps of pillars
Understandable Archeology | John Rousseau and Rami Arav, Jesus and His World: An Archeological and Cultural Dictionary
April 6, 2018When one travels to Israel, it soon becomes clear that most of the traditional sites for events in the New Testament represent locations selected by religious sentimentality, not scientific archeology. Too many publications of holy…
Mormons and UFOs | Jack Anderson, Millennium
April 6, 2018Towards the end of Jack Anderson’s first novel, Millennium, syndicated columnist Mick Aaronson announces: “What I am about to tell you is the most important message I have ever written in all my years of…
That Which Moves | Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby, eds., Accounting for Fundamentalisms: The Dynamic Character of Movements
April 6, 2018Accounting for Fundamentalisms is the fourth volume in a series of studies of religious fundamentalism which began in 1988. The volume re viewed is part of a massive study project sponsored by the American Academy…
Balancing Acts
April 6, 2018When Catherine opened her eyes on the Saturday morning of her daughter Kelly’s baptism, she recognized that the day ahead was going to test her endurance. Not only did she have to clean the house…
I Will
April 6, 2018Bitter herbs and tears
Mulch, water the spiritual
Roots of human neuroses
Surely God sees through