Toni’s Song
April 7, 2018She prays in the shower, lifts
her face to the streaming water
god, to the shining metallic head
DiaBLOGue
Coming of Age? The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the 1960s
April 7, 2018Dialogue 28.4 (Winter 1995): 31–55
In many respects the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints of the 1960s mirrored the general tumult, if not the details, of the larger American society.
Because Last Night Was Friday Night
April 7, 2018Because last night was Friday night
I had to search to find a quiet place
and when I found it I wanted to leave it
though I wasn’t even working off a mean gin drunk.
Saturday: One Version (Fourth Week of an Unidentified Illness)
April 7, 2018Tired of enclosure, I sit near what view
of trees and sky my house will give.
Across the back fence, my neighbor
who can hardly walk
The Prophet’s Dream
April 7, 2018An angel came to me and said, O Pitiable Fools!
O Foolish Mortals! O Everlasting Damnation!
I said, Perhaps you will be willing to shew me
their eternal lot, and my own. He said, Come.
Mormons and Land Conservation | John B. Wright, Rocky Mountain Divide: Selling and Saving the West
April 7, 2018John B. Wright’s Rocky Mountain Divide: Selling and Saving the West contains a unique examination of Mormon attitudes toward land conservation. In spite of some inaccurate statements about Mormon history, doc trine, and practice, the…
Sustained by Faith and Community | Carol Cornwall Madsen, ed., In Their Own Words: Women and the Story of Nauvoo
April 7, 2018Carol Cornwall Maden’s In Their Own Words: Women and the Story of Nauvoo brings together accounts of life in Nauvoo, Illinois, by about two dozen LDS women, some well known, some relatively obscure. Professor Madsen’s…
Easter Service
April 7, 2018“The earth turns, the sun rises. It’s quite simple.” We turned towards the high peaks to the east—cold, and still smooth and clean with snow, the half-circle of rising sun warming our faces. I squinted…
Epiphany
April 7, 2018We had been up there for two months when the clouds came in. It hap pened overnight. When I crawled into my sleeping bag the night before, the air was dry and clear. The mountain…