The Charity of Silence
March 29, 2018This is the story of my father’s demise. It wanders when I tell it, and I never know when to bring in the polygamy, so I just do and let matters take care of themselves.…
DiaBLOGue
The By-pass
March 29, 2018If I looked up the road from the irrigation ditch, I could see the church house bumping stiff and dark against the sunset’s blaze. “The old church house/’ people called it now. “The old churchhouse,”…
Salt Lake Citations
March 29, 2018A friend writes: In a walking excursion last fall through the old block lying between Fifth and Sixth East, Seventh and Eight South—in a narrow alley behind Charon’s Mexican Bakery—I came across a shop of…
The Missionary Journal of Сестра Найт
March 29, 2018March 26, 1996
I am sitting in a hotel suite in Moscow. The airport lost our luggage, so we are going to stay here until they find it. Our total flight time was fifteen hours from Washington, D.C., to Moscow. Sister Akers, Elder Hadlock, and I slept most of the time to avoid the kissy movies being shown.
Thin Ice
March 29, 2018I watch two girls on wheels.
Four neon-green wheels
on each foot. Rollers
The Rhetoric of Hypocrisy: Virtuous and Vicious
March 29, 2018[1]I can’t resist beginning with some crude, rude questions. As I look out at you, I see you all appearing as polite, open-minded, virtuous lovers of culture studies, or at least inquirers into what such…
Emma’s Anguish
March 29, 2018Joseph, Joseph,
How has the night persuaded you?
What bed but this?
What arms but mine?
Wisdom Traditions in the Hebrew Bible
March 29, 2018Introduction Practical advice on farming, choosing a wife, table manners at court, as well as speculations on the nature of divine justice and the mysteries of nature—these are just a few of the topics which…
Joseph to Emma
March 29, 2018Out of the night of holy election,
Out of the silence, the eloquent silence
Only believing whispers to me:
Follow the guiding of soul-felt selection,
Reflections on the Documentary Hypothesis
March 29, 2018The Editors of Dialogue have invited me to respond to Thomas Doze man’s article, “The Authorship of the Pentateuch,” which appeared in the previous issue.[1] The development of the Documentary Hypothesis is a fascinating chapter…