Holy Sonnet for Mother’s Day
April 2, 2018No need to pierce my side with soldier’s sword
Or bleed from every pore as in Gethsemane;
Designed by Thee to shed blood naturally
Cycling with the menstrual moon. Lord,
DiaBLOGue
Jesus Christ in the New Testament: Part One: The Historical Jesus behind the Gospels
April 2, 2018The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews sums up his Christian faith with the memorable cry (13:8): “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever!” The “yesterday” and “today” of this cry express well both the strong point and the problem of Christian faith. For Christian faith is nothing if not a historical faith. It is inevitably anchored in the historical life and death of one particular Jew of the first century A.D., and yet the meaning of that life and that death has been reinterpreted countless times down through the centuries. The yesterday and the today of Christian faith must always stand in a certain tension or dialectic.
History
April 2, 2018Small things:
the smell of
blocks he cut
from pine light
A Prayer Addressed to Lord of Death
April 2, 2018O Yama, God of Death, wield not your arrogant power!
Shield me from your wrath and dark terror.
You well know that you’ll succeed.
Zion-building: Pondering a Paradigm | James W. Lucas and Warner P. Woodworth, Working Toward Zion: Principles of the United Order for the Modern World
April 2, 2018Zion-building as the formation of social institutions based on principles purportedly underlying Mormon United Orders has repeatedly captured the attention of scholars, re formers, practitioners, and church leaders over the past 150 years. The variety…
David K. Daltridge: Servant of God
April 2, 2018I They left that morning without being told where they were going. Daltridge was surprised when, instead of flying high and north toward Hanoi, they stayed level and curved west. As the flight commander offered…
Reading Between the Sheets
April 2, 2018You know, what constipates her, really, is all those folks peering over her shoulder, not only looking for their names or themselves on her Mac screen or on the pages between the grainy covers of…
Mormontage
April 2, 2018baptism—
separation anxiety
immergency
Jesus Christ in the New Testament: Part Two: Various Images of Jesus in the Books of the New Testament
April 2, 2018I. Introduction My previous essay on the historical Jesus in the winter 1997 issue began with the famous cry of Hebrews 13:8 (“Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever!”) and proceeded to focus on…
Allelujah
April 2, 2018When the semicircle is complete,
each pedestal placed aesthetically
on stage, the girls enter.
Thirty earnest seraphs