Mormonism on the Big Mac Standard
April 5, 2018A few years ago a member of our Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2nd Ward bishopric and his wife made their first journey across the United States. Born and reared in Japan, they were anxious to see the…
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Reflecting on the Death Penalty
April 5, 2018During the winter of 1994 a man I represented was taken to a small room in Huntsville, Texas, strapped to a gurney, and his life was taken from him by strangers in the name of…
3/4″ Marine Ply
April 5, 2018I arrived in San Diego the day before Christmas to visit my mother and to clean out her garage. I am the fourth of seven children, most of whom live much farther away than L.A.…
The Miró Exhibit at MoMA*: Dec. 21, 1993
April 5, 2018These bodies
look like they were pancake mix
that, when poured on the skillet,
turned out to look sort of human.
A Trajectory of Plurality: An Overview of Joseph Smith’s Thirty-three Plural Wives
April 5, 2018Preliminary Considerations: Counting Wives Some readers may regard the accompanying chart of Joseph Smith’s plural wives as overly conservative. Fawn Brodie counted forty-eight wives in her biography of Joseph Smith; more recently D. Michael Quinn…
Pieta
April 5, 2018Lying on my mother’s bed
listening to tropical rain skitter
across a mottled screen,
I hold my daughter, sprawled in sleep,
She’iiná Yázhí*
April 4, 2018As earth began to shed the snowy clouds of
death and slumber,
as darkness ebbed within the solstice,
you slept in my dark womb,
Familiar People | Eugene England, ed., Bright Angels and Familiars: Contemporary Mormon Stories
April 4, 2018In Lewis Horne’s short story, “The People Who Were Not There,” the young Mormon protagonist looks at the notebook of Clifford Wellington, an Indian boy from a local reservation, and declares, “The pages gave off…
Something to Show
April 4, 2018The corridors buzzed with all the chatter and anticipation of a courtroom before a major trial. At five after eleven, packs of people scurried to their seats looking greedily toward the stand. The chapel bulged.…
Sanctified, In the Flesh
April 4, 2018He disengaged the gear, ground the key forward. The motor clicked. The steerage went heavy in his hands. He pushed the signal bar upward with his palm, crossed lanes. “What is it?” she asked. “Nothing,”…