Stake Mission
April 3, 2018Their place was a junkyard with Joshuas,
and they’d play Mom and Pop
to any delinquent on the desert.
We’d be forever having
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Laban’s Ghost: On Writing and Transgression
April 3, 2018In his 1955 classic work, Tristes Tropiques, French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss recorded a story of unintended social impact evoked by his introduction of writing to the illiterate Nambikwara of tropical Brazil. Several days after Levi-Strauss…
Kayenta
April 3, 2018Summers we paint relocation houses
on the res, beige and grey,
“Navajo white/’ our brushes dripping
Dutch Boy on red Arizona earth.
Pretender to the Throne? R.C. Evans and the Problem of Presidential Succession in the Reorganization
April 3, 2018Dialogue 30.2 (Summer 1997): 47–65
Born into a Canadian family living in St. Andrews, Ontario Province, on 20 October 1861 , Richard C. Evans rose to fame and power experienced by few other members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Moon Phases: Childhood
April 3, 2018when it topped the mountains
the shell of moon laid down
such plenty
all over the fields
Better than Sheep and Goats
April 3, 2018The Savior counsels his followers to “[a]sk, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened” (Matt. 7:7-8).
As a young boy I believed in these words with such steadfast sure ness that I actually formulated a list of wishes to bring before the Lord. The adversity of life, however, has taken that simple child-like faith and dashed it against the rocky shoals of reality.
Psychology as Foil to Religion: A Reformulation of Dualism
April 3, 2018I think about religion and psychology all the time. They call to mind a huge quandary based on what appear to be irreconcilable dichotomies: faith versus empiricism (the subjective versus the objective); sin or evil…
Mountain Turn-out: Week After My Father’s Funeral
April 3, 2018In the ghost-smoke of eight thousand feet,
the road back looks deserted.
Below me, a hawk rises,
wings throbbing stillness, and I watch
“My ‘Word of Wisdom’ Blues”
April 3, 2018My dear granddaughter, Dolly Sri, I knew you would cause me problems the first time I held you in my arms. My anxiety became real when I saw you win your first gymnastic meet. It heightened as I watched you walk across the stage as a junior prom princess.
Henry D. Moyle: A Chapter from Richard D. Poll’s Unpublished Biography
April 3, 2018In 1980-81 Richard D. Poll, vice-president of Western Illinois University and former professor of history at Brigham Young University, was re searching, interviewing for, and writing a comprehensive biography of LDS apostle and member of…