This award-winning book by Professor Leo Lyman of Victor Valley College is the product of many years of research and writing. He takes the reader through diaries, letters, records kept by church clerks, newspaper accounts…
When I saw the title Mormons in Transition, I thought perhaps Dialogue had given me the book because the author intended a word-play on my Mormonism in Transition. I was quite mistaken. Leslie Reynolds started…
A brigade of ants marching over torsos
cast in bronze. The mouths that cannot speak
For Baldomero and Adeena My real name is Carlos, but ever since I turned eight everyone calls me Charlie. That’s the name I received from Allen and Johnson, the first two Mormons who ever set…
for Jeffrey Montague
Your wondering is over.
A radiance has taken you.
Now part of the council of all beings
“It might not be a problem,” she said to her husband before rolling onto her stomach with a pillow clutched in her arms. She was tired from crying and wished sleep would overcome her. Though…
He squints and turns the beam around,
swapping it end for end. He runs
his eye down the length of the crown
and sees an overall design
From its beginnings in the spring of 1830, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has grown to more than 9 million members and now adds a million new converts worldwide every three years.…
Let’s talk of griefs,
of wombs,
of epithets.
[1]In 3 Nephi in the Book of Mormon (hereafter BOM) the resurrected Jesus Christ repeats in large part the famous Sermon on the Mount, but this time before a New World audience. The Sermon on…