Elizabeth, and Dying Wishes
April 4, 2018All winter and into spring Charlie Sutton tended his wife as best he could. It was awkward from the start, knowing that the outcome was never really in doubt. The cancer that Bettie defeated six…
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Sister Dallon Gets Tattooed
April 4, 2018Johnny take a walk With your sister the moon Let her pale light in To fill up your room You’ve been living underground Eating from a can You’ve been running away from what you don’t understand U2, “Mysterious Ways” Sister Alice Dallon…
Awake to the Ineffable: Some Would Call It Kundalini
April 4, 2018Out of sleep
Levitation
Stirrups of light
Palms aglow
To Sleep with the Ineffable: Inviting My Sweet Informants
April 4, 2018Cheek to pillow I slide my scalp up
away from my ear the way I lifted the mother of pearl stem on the
silver lid
that closed and opened to disappear under itself
Lavina Fielding Anderson and the Power of a Church in Exile
April 4, 2018Over the years Lavina Fielding Anderson’s friendship and approval have helped me understand I am a real, if irregular, Mormon. It is therefore ironic that she, who believes so devoutly, has been excommunicated while I…
W.H. Chamberlin and the Quest for a Mormon Theology
April 4, 2018[1]It is time to resurrect W. H. Chamberlin. Chamberlin lived the life of an intellectual and spiritual pilgrim. With little money he filled a mission to the Society Islands and later served as mission president…
The Soon-to-hibernate Bear Addresses His Public
April 4, 2018Slow way down.
Get off the freeway.
Park the car.
Stop racing the engine.
The Fire of God: Thoughts on the Nature of Divine Witness
April 4, 2018For many members of the LDS church, the word “testimony” calls up images stretched over a lifetime: fervent declarations uttered in half darkness around waning campfires, quiet successions of stories and assurances in sunwashed chapels,…
“White” of “Pure”: Five Vignettes
April 4, 2018Dialogue 29.4 (Winter 1996): 119–135
The Book of Mormon variously uses “white” and “pure” in the same verse in different editions. This article traces the history of those changes, who was behind them, and why.
Leaving
April 4, 2018Leaving you
leaves me wishing that I could hold you
like a small stone in my pocket