Sacrament Hymn
April 2, 2018Jesus Deathkiller,
God’s Lifer, Earth Rover, Gift:
Be sure,
in your name and our hope,
DiaBLOGue
The Last Battle: C.S. Lewis and Mormonism
April 2, 2018It is common for members of the LDS church to regard C. S. Lewis, the famous Anglican writer, as a “Mormon in embryo/’ who, if he were to have read the Book of Mormon, would…
Seeing the Stranger as Enemy: Coming Out
April 2, 2018It’s not easy to motivate two thousand people, about evenly divided among high school students, young parents, and older citizens, to march a mile up a steep hill to listen to speakers on an unseasonably beautiful winter day. But Utah’s state legislators had been up to the task. With language so raw, so full of homophobic hatred, they had called these young citizens, our own children, bestial and subhuman.
From the Land of Nod
April 2, 2018I will go on
loving you, even after
you have stopped loving
anyone. What if
Musings on Motherhood
April 2, 2018Motherhood is both more glorious and more difficult than I could have known when I was playing with dolls, pretending to be a mama. The reality of motherhood was beyond me until I became a…
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,
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…