Documenting the daily is difficult. Women save wedding dresses, not house dresses. Men polish the handles of hand-braided buggy whips, but toss worn-out hammer handles into the fire. Nineteenth-century Mor mons were historically among the…
The ranger stoops to toss a stick away
and points to a narrow hole dug in the mud.
“Snakes,” she says, “are plentiful this year;
there’s some bubonic plague in rodents here.”
For me, Jesus’ home is my husband’s, and it is also the birthplace of my extra-American consciousness. I was never allowed to see it as a tourist. I never listened to a tour guide’s simplistic…
The quick exit—
Space, windows, safety.
Cozy couches and easy
Chairs versus the hard
Dialogue 31.2 (Summer 1998): 1–68
Quinn shares what Mormon Fundamentalists believe. some stereotypes about them, and identfies the different groups.
Black
is the absence of color
to which the eye adjusts.
Black magnifies the face of
the beloved.
How Wide the Divide? Is a nice change from the typical literature published by evangelical publishing houses concerning the subject of Mor monism. This book attempts to enter into an open dialogue on the basic…
At first, the title of this book seems a bit misleading and confusing. “Friendly fire” became popular during the Gulf War as a description of how American troops were killed by their comrades during desert…
How do non-Mormons feel about living in Utah? Missing Stories answers many such questions. These are the people’s words and not interpretation. As Helen Papanikolas explains in the introduction, “This is not a book of…
So speaks King Saul:
I want this modest man of war
David, dead.
Snare him with a string