Lily Foot
April 2, 2018Did I hold the tiny Chinese shoe
or simply gaze at it
encased in museum glass
in the old mining town
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A Saint for All Seasons
April 2, 2018As Sterling McMurrin put it, “Every religion needs a saint, and Lowell Bennion is Mormonism’s saint.” Why does a church need a saint? People need a flesh and blood example, a person who has attained…
Templum: A Place Thought of as Holy
April 2, 2018I. The coming
Inside this precise granite
the immensity of the walk comes home
Max Weber and Lowell Bennion: Towards an Understanding of Hierarchy and Authority
April 2, 2018Lowell L. Bennion was widely known among Latter-day Saints for his Christlike life and humanitarianism, as well as for his teaching and authorship of numerous church books and manuals.
Fiddler with a Cause | Marian Robertson Wilson, Leroy Robertson: Music Giant from the Rockies
April 2, 2018Leroy Robertson was one of my mentors. I played in the Brigham Young University orchestra under him in 1945-46, studied music theory from him as a graduate student at the University of Utah in 1955,…
A Collective Yearning | Eugene England and Lavina Fielding Anderson, eds., Tending the Garden: Essays on Mormon Literature
April 2, 2018There is a collective yearning here, a palpable sincerity, that you can’t help but like and respect. The desire that practically radiates from these pages is for Mormon literature to be taken seriously, both by…
A Classic Reprinted | J. Roderic Korns and Dale L. Morgan, eds., West from Fort Bridger: The Pioneering of Immigrant Trails across Utah, 1846-1850
April 2, 2018When published originally in 1951 as volume 19 of the Utah Historical Quarterly, this book made a major contribution to understanding the history of overland routes traveled west from Fort Bridger to California. No other…
Waters of Mormon
April 2, 2018When she went down into those Mormon waters, she must have been eighty years old. No one exactly knew, but it’d been a lot of years, at least sixty, her daughter thought, from that other…
Old Man
April 2, 2018Once, when I was twenty-one and fretting about my future, my aunt said, “Why, you have the world by the tail! You can have anything you want!” Today I feel that I have the world…
After a Late Night, Waiting
April 2, 2018Again, that rim before sleep:
I tried to pause there—listened
to the mantle clock, the distant
sprung rhythm of a dog barking,