Critical Condition
March 28, 2018for Gene England at Utah Valley Hospital, 2001
When I heard about Gene’s surgery, I
thought, “Even with half a brain he’d still
be ten times smarter than me!”
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Pluralism, Mormonism, and World Religion | Eric Eliason, ed., Mormons and Mormonism: An Introduction to an American World Religion
March 28, 2018This collection of eleven articles from a wide range of fields surveys current and historical Mor monism. It is targeted at an educated audience both inside and outside the traditional readership community in Mormon studies.…
An Other Mormon History | Jorge Iber, Hispanics in the Mormon Zion, 1912-1999
March 28, 2018Jorge Iber’s debut, Hispanics in the Mormon Zion, earned the impressive honor of the Mormon History As sociation’s 2001 Best First Book Award. Iber brings the intellectual tools and fresh insight of ethnic studies into…
God’s Army: Wiggle Room for the Mormon Soul
March 28, 2018If you can get past the unfortunate title of Richard Dutcher’s God’s Army, you will find the first commercial film of what might be a new era in Mormon art. Dutcher’s creation likely spikes interest…
Keepsakes
March 28, 2018On the day of her funeral, my mother’s two sister-wives put on a dinner in her honor. Sister Karen and Sister Sharlene spent the morning before the services baking pies and fresh bread, making potato…
Blood Sports
March 28, 2018This is how I see it. I find it to be a dark side of Mormonism, pervasive and insidious in character. Young men, in some cases young women, are socialized into blood sports. Youth in…
Song of Shiblon
March 28, 2018I am twenty-one years old.
I lie in the golden light of a Korean September afternoon. I have curled myself up on the musty, avocado-skinned sofa that occupies a large corner of the living room. A small living room in a small apartment, which occupies the floor above a cosmetics store that seems to sell only furniture.
Wedding Vows
March 28, 2018My fears awakened
when I touched you, sacrificial,
kneeling at the altar
extending your hands,
beckoning to be destroyed
ceremoniously.
Last Supper
March 28, 2018“Have you heard the really bad news?” my editor, Doc, asked almost off handedly as he wound the film in his camera.
Then came that pause.
Defending Magic: Explaining the Necessity of Ordinances
March 28, 2018In this paper I want to deal with a large gap in Christian theology, in general, and in LDS theology, in particular. The gap is the lack of explanation of the moral necessity of religious…