Fall Is the Wrong Analogy
April 2, 2018this hesitant collapsing
of a canopy that will billow
in windy spring—
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Fundamentalist Polygamists | Irwin Altman and Joseph Ginat, Polygamous Families in Contemporary Society
April 2, 2018Irwin Altman, of the University of Utah, and Joseph Ginat, of the University of Haifa, one a social-environ mental psychologist, the other an anthropologist, studied twenty-seven contemporary polygamous families in the American West. They start…
A Tragic Story of Loss | Edward Leo Lyman, San Bernardino: The Rise and Fall of a California Community
April 2, 2018This award-winning book by Professor Leo Lyman of Victor Valley College is the product of many years of research and writing. He takes the reader through diaries, letters, records kept by church clerks, newspaper accounts…
Learn from the Stories, Pity the Prejudice | Leslie Reynolds, Mormons in Transition
April 2, 2018When I saw the title Mormons in Transition, I thought perhaps Dialogue had given me the book because the author intended a word-play on my Mormonism in Transition. I was quite mistaken. Leslie Reynolds started…
Martyrs
April 2, 2018A brigade of ants marching over torsos
cast in bronze. The mouths that cannot speak
Like the Rose
April 2, 2018For Baldomero and Adeena My real name is Carlos, but ever since I turned eight everyone calls me Charlie. That’s the name I received from Allen and Johnson, the first two Mormons who ever set…
On the Death by Cancer of Someone Too Young
April 2, 2018for Jeffrey Montague
Your wondering is over.
A radiance has taken you.
Now part of the council of all beings
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…
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.…