Dialogue 31.4 (Winter 1999):190–199
It is noteworthy because, instead of laying out the original historical meaning of Isaiah, it reapplies the text to the time of Joseph Smith and to the course of Jewish and Christian history up to his time.
In those days
we all wanted a man
to cover our shame, the nakedness
of being a woman alone.
A degree yes unless
The Knight came
Rudger Judd Clawson, born 12 March 1857 in Salt Lake City, Utah, was a polygamist and the first Mormon convicted and imprisoned (1884-87) for violating federal law (Edmunds Act of 1882) regarding unlawful co habitation.[1]…
The week they turn off your phone,
I wait in your car while you give quarters
to a pay phone mounted on red brick
at a convenience store.
What a difference a word makes. Consider, for example, these two words: apostle, a biblical word from the Greek apostalds, meaning “one sent forth.” For Mormons, an apostle is a man called of God as…
The human mind seems irresistibly compelled by (at least) two incompatible intuitions: first, that as morally responsible beings we are able to do other than what we do; second, that what happens now could not…
Family sentinels, we watch flames grab scrub oak
roughly on the shoulder of our dysphoric mountain,
shiver as three firs’ tired arms collapse in slow motion
silence.
For the first fourteen years of his tenure as president of BYU (1951-65), Ernest Wilkinson was largely occupied with expanding the school’s size and its academic reputation. His goal of creating the world’s most important…
The extraordinarily yet often highly conflicted connection between religious and sexual impulses and expression has long been noted by scholars.[1] Dynamically expansive new religious movements, in particular, often experience sharp polarities between efforts to control,…
Women keep the secrets of men
by candlelight and telephone,
growing in their wombs.