We Write What We Want to Know
April 1, 2018I want to know why water has the right of way
where God dwells near zenith or nadir
why you see stars better peripherally
why some people have a fear of trees
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Northing by Musket and Sextant
April 1, 2018Steven whistled Neil Young songs to himself as the pickup sped north towards Saltillo. From the truck’s open bed, he commanded an obstructionless and enviable view of this Mexican wilderness’s enormous sterility. For some, it…
A Sunday School Answer
April 1, 2018Just another day in paradise in the Garden Park Ward. It was a spring morning that felt more like summer, and Sister Conway, our Sunday school instructor, was gracious enough to leave the door open,…
Rook
April 1, 2018Last winter, after half a century of faithful church service and during a temple session, I abandoned my position at the temple veil, removed my robes, and demanded to be released. By nightfall, I had…
My Father Comes to Me
April 1, 2018My father comes to me
his hand scrapes on the door
that he opens to this bedroom where I am still,
not sleeping but waiting for his hair oil scent to reach me.
Joseph Smith’s Interpretation of Isaiah in the Book of Mormon
April 1, 2018Dialogue 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.
To a College Friend Killed by a Drunk Driver
April 1, 2018In 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 Clawson’s Report on LDS Church Finances at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
April 1, 2018Rudger 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]…
Drama Queen
April 1, 2018The 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.
Profile of Apostasy: Who Are the Bad Guys, Really?
April 1, 2018What 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…