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…
The goal of Mormons and the Bible, according to author Phil Barlow, is “to sketch, through pivotal figures, the main developing lines of LDS biblical usage.” The figures discussed are important thinkers and writers, and…
Put water between the highway and yourself;
put a fence too, and some cows to graze.
For as long as you sit on this rock,
you are not driving north or south,
One of his had just spilled
some Cheerios, and one of hers
was griping over the Grapenuts.
He was about to holler
Patty Lou sat on her green vinyl sofa, her legs crossed, and thumbed through the daily Brookhaven newspaper. She glanced over at Robert, her thirty-year-old grandson, sitting on the brown vinyl sofa, reading the Jackson…
White brides, dark grooms
lustrous silks on
an orange afternoon,
scuffing through dry leaves
This visit you talk of Merlin in both poem and prose,
and how he transformed Arthur to insect or mole,
teaching him how to become.