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The Angel Tree
April 7, 2018The request to work a second year in the Salvation Army’s annual “Angel Tree” booth, a thoughtful community Christmas project enjoyed by church members, came during a thunderous downpour one Monday morning in December. A…
Changes in LDS Hymns: Implications and Opportunities
April 7, 2018
Aristocrats
April 7, 2018Two black snakes
Made it down the hill
Through the high grass
Among the wild apple trees
At Children’s Hospital
April 7, 2018I leaned against the glass door, struggling to open it against the air current that held it closed. With both hands now I pushed until finally I forced it open and found myself in the…
His Faith-Promoting Story
April 7, 2018Thirty-six years after his baptism,
nobody was converted.
His grown kids were apostates, and his exes
were either nudists or inactives
Pillars of My Family: A Brief Saga
April 7, 2018
Bread: A Returning
April 7, 2018In the hayfields are loaves
to be lined along barns.
Like monuments to a lost art
they have browned in the summer heat,