When the Brightness Seems Most Distant
April 2, 2018“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…
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Woodwork
April 2, 2018He 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
Researching Mormonism: General Conference as Artifactual Gold Mine
April 2, 2018From 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.…
Take These Depositions
April 2, 2018Let’s talk of griefs,
of wombs,
of epithets.
Did the Author of 3 Nephi Know the Gospel of Matthew?
April 2, 2018[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…
Straw
April 2, 2018The straw of the cut grain
Gold mounding the hill
On the way down from my house
On the mountain
Building Wilkinson’s University
April 2, 2018During his twenty years from 1951 to 1971 as seventh president of BYU, Ernest L. Wilkinson molded the lackluster Provo school into a showplace of LDS educational values. “More than any other single cause,” his successor observed, “[Wilkinson’s] remarkable and relentless leadership … is the key to the present stature of Brigham Young University.”
At Fifty-Nine
April 2, 2018I was reading the other evening from an old and friendly book by the late George Sheehan entitled Running and Being: The Total Experience, published in 1978 by Simon and Schuster of New York. This…
Reflections on LDS Disbelief in the Book of Mormon as History
April 2, 2018Dialogue 30.3 (Fall 1999):90–103
To average LDS church members in 1909, Roberts’s New Witnesses for God substantiated their beliefs and further embellished his stature for them as a historian and defender of the Book of Mormon. But only thirteen years later Roberts was to change his mind and that dramatically.
Hymn
April 2, 2018Lately I can’t get over the feeling that there is a man in my bed: a big man with thick, wavy hair and a broad, barrel chest that goes up-and down, up-and-down all night long…