Old Man
April 2, 2018Once, when I was twenty-one and fretting about my future, my aunt said, “Why, you have the world by the tail! You can have anything you want!” Today I feel that I have the world…
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After a Late Night, Waiting
April 2, 2018Again, that rim before sleep:
I tried to pause there—listened
to the mantle clock, the distant
sprung rhythm of a dog barking,
Pioneers
April 2, 2018My wife, Freida, could have worked for Cecil B. DeMille or Steven Spielberg, given her cast-of-thousands knack for the spectacular. Take to night, for instance. In the name of fellowshipping, and to beef up our…
Joseph Smith’s Emendation of Hebrew Genesis 1:1
April 2, 2018In the fall of 1980 I was a student in a biblical Hebrew course taught by Professor Keith Meservy at Brigham Young University. One day Professor Meservy shared with the class a letter that had…
A Response to “The Dilemma of the Mormon Rationalist”
April 2, 2018As one also interested in conflicts between faith and reason, I find Robert Anderson’s essay a well-documented, well-reasoned, literate, and thoughtful presentation of a subject I suspect is relevant for many readers. I would like…
Out of the Night: Childness
April 2, 2018From my Mystic Life after near-death accident
More than a state of being
A new being
Suffused in light
The Dilemma of the Mormon Rationalist
April 2, 2018In the decline of Christianity over the past 900 years, no incident has so symbolized the struggle between faith and rationality as has the trial of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). With his development of the telescope and discovery of the moonlike phases of Venus, he concluded that the sun was the center of the universe and challenged a literal interpretation of the Bible.
Sacrament Hymn
April 2, 2018Jesus Deathkiller,
God’s Lifer, Earth Rover, Gift:
Be sure,
in your name and our hope,
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.