Weight
April 7, 2018He was folding garments in the back bedroom
when he heard one of his kids telling
his wife that his ex had “lost a lot of weight”—
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“Come Ye Disconsolate”: Is There a Mercy Seat in Mormon Theology and Practice?
April 7, 2018At age sixty-eight I have lived long enough to know some of the sorrows of this life. More than once I have cried out with the Psalmist: “Out of the depths I cry unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice!”
The Law That Brings Life
April 7, 2018In 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…
hospital healing
April 7, 2018of course a two-inch badger
carved from liver-colored stone
with arrows bound to his back,
could not make the difference.
Wallace Stegner: The Unwritten Letter
April 7, 2018I remember well the first time I met Wallace Stegner because I wanted so much to prove him wrong.
The Education of a BYU Professor
April 7, 2018In 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…
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.
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