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Lucifer’s Legacy
April 9, 2018Twice now I’ve been told straight out and in so many words, “Don’t be too honest!” Both times this earnest counsel came from men whose friendship I cherish and whose priesthood callings command my respect.…
The Violent Woman
April 9, 2018Sarah your clarinet
body squeaks at the valves, moans
off key, and lying still
and flat as a paper doll
“No Respecter of Persons”: A Mormon Ethics of Diversity
April 9, 2018Dialogue 27.4 (Winter 1994): 79–100
Eugene England addresses issues of inclusion and exclusion reflecting on what it means that “God is no respector of persons.”
Naked
April 9, 2018I was expecting ripened avocadoes, Michael,
or half-used spices—the usual throwaways before
a move. Not a grocery bag of garments, unopened,
each slippery package a skin you never tied on.
Taiwan Trilogy
April 9, 2018
The Fading Curse of Cain: Mormonism in South Africa
April 9, 2018Dialogue 27.4 (Winter 1994): 41–56
White South African Church members’s perspectives on racial issues in the context of Apartheid.
Cap Meets the Prophet Brigham
April 9, 2018On the third day he stopped for a deserved rest,
though not intentionally. The bishop, she explained,
was hunting pheasants and wouldn’t be back
for hours. So he collapsed into a straw bed
1844
April 9, 2018Signs in the heavens. Great arcs of light
at midday. Drew it. Intend
to ask Joseph what it means …