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…
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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…
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.