Thin Ice
March 29, 2018I watch two girls on wheels.
Four neon-green wheels
on each foot. Rollers
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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…
Winter Dies
March 29, 2018The full third moon of passing
winter rears up
against an x-ray white orchard.
There are tree skeletons.
Mormonism and the Radical Religious Movement in Early Colonial New England
March 29, 2018Mormons believe that forerunners prepared the way for the restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ in the latter days. This paper examines a special set of those forerunners, namely, the progenitors of the early converts to the LDS church, whose religious experiences took them through a refiner’s fire so significant and revolutionary that it helped provide their descendants with the disposition to embrace a new, radical faith.
The Discovery of Native “Mormon” Communities in Russia
March 29, 2018In early June 1998, Sheridan Gashler, president of the Russia Samara Mission, felt moved to place missionaries in a small village called Bogdanovka. This was an exciting change in policy. Early LDS missionary work in Russia had been concentrated in large urban areas where most missionaries could enjoy such civilized luxuries as paved roads, frequent public transportation, telephone lines, and running water. In recent years missions branched into smaller cities, but the Russian village was an altogether new frontier. Bogdanovka, although it is only 100 miles or so from the large regional capital city of Samara, is a world apart.
Intricate, Lucid, Generous | Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner, Dancing Naked
March 29, 2018Few first novels in Utah in the last three decades have earned the popularity and notoriety of Dancing Naked. When Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner did a “pre-publication” reading from the book at the Writers@Work conference…