In writing these thoughts, I am documenting the abandonment of a theological philosophy that has been a central, if somewhat beleaguered, feature of my faith. The decision to abandon the traditions of my heritage was…
of course a two-inch badger
carved from liver-colored stone
with arrows bound to his back,
could not make the difference.
I remember well the first time I met Wallace Stegner because I wanted so much to prove him wrong.
In the fall of 1948 I began my career as a teacher of history at Brigham Young University and continued there until I resigned in the spring of 1954. During those six years I was…
The blue ice is melting
off the high ridge,
draining down through the trees.
The blade of rock darkens in the sun.
Sterling 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…
I did not plan survival or otherwise
craving absence for so long
so when awakened that snowless night
is 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
Joseph 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…
Born 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…