Father Sky/Mother Earth
April 3, 2018I am turning the irrigation water
Into my garden
It’s two in the afternoon
The reddening tomatoes jerk up, widen their eyes
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How She Comes
April 3, 2018Like a storm rowing in. All around tree limbs stagger,
weeds lie flat. Wind and sun like familiars,
canyons nesting in the shadows. Bright feet
never touching down, while the air boils behind her
Mormon Millennialism: The Literalist Legacy and Implications for the Year 2000
April 3, 2018One’s search for meaning usually leads to eschatological inquiry. More than mere theology, millennialism is a way of looking at world history and the destiny of humankind.[1] Beginning with Joseph Smith’s initial religious experience, the…
Fall Is the Wrong Analogy
April 2, 2018this hesitant collapsing
of a canopy that will billow
in windy spring—
Fundamentalist Polygamists | Irwin Altman and Joseph Ginat, Polygamous Families in Contemporary Society
April 2, 2018Irwin Altman, of the University of Utah, and Joseph Ginat, of the University of Haifa, one a social-environ mental psychologist, the other an anthropologist, studied twenty-seven contemporary polygamous families in the American West. They start…
A Tragic Story of Loss | Edward Leo Lyman, San Bernardino: The Rise and Fall of a California Community
April 2, 2018This 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…
Learn from the Stories, Pity the Prejudice | Leslie Reynolds, Mormons in Transition
April 2, 2018When 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…
Martyrs
April 2, 2018A brigade of ants marching over torsos
cast in bronze. The mouths that cannot speak
Like the Rose
April 2, 2018For 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…
On the Death by Cancer of Someone Too Young
April 2, 2018for Jeffrey Montague
Your wondering is over.
A radiance has taken you.
Now part of the council of all beings