Refashioned beyond recognition, Salt Lake City hosted the Winter Games in February 2002. While the world partied Olympically—Budweisers in hand, whooping it up in chaotic street fetes—Latter-day Saints found haven in the LDS Conference Center.…
He paid the three-twenty
three and slipped the familiar
red and white box into
his jacket pocket.
As in the lives of individuals, certain events in the lives of cities leave such a mark that time is thenceforth measured in terms of before and after. For example, following the Columbian Exposition that brought more than 27 million people to Chicago in 1893, that city would always be something more than “hog butcher to the world.” The dazzling Midway Plaisance, one of the fair’s high lights, soon disappeared. But an amazing stretch of parks and buildings along Chicago’s Lake Michigan waterfront continues to be a reminder that this Mid-western metropolis was once host to the world.
Silence and grace,
the only words I know
in either of their languages,
so I don’t say much.
When I saw the title David Allred chose for his remarks, I wondered if he would directly address the issues I’d raised in my essay. I’m afraid I don’t think he did, and I will…
When I picked up David’s paper to read it, I had a pencil in my hand. Years of reading my students’ and my own papers made it natural to edit as I read. How ever,…
The moment that I cannot comprehend
is when you took your garments off.
I wonder (though I don’t quite want to know)
whether, when the moment came,
it was conscious or was incidental.
Dialogue 36.3 (Spring 2003): 71–87
Watson shares why early fundamentalists broke off from the main church and decided to leave Utah and settle Short Creek.
All bones, nose, and trouble.
It hasn’t been a year
since he burned the tool shed down
then crouched, crying, at the back
of the garden while firemen watered
the high whipping flames.
I believe the history of the Bremen Wards to be a good example of LDS history in Germany. The first branch was founded in January 1882 with seven members, and by the year 2000 there were 400 members in two wards. After a slow beginning there was in Bremen, as in all of Germany, a great deal of missionary success from the 1920’s to the Second World War and again in two periods after the Second World War (1946-1964, 1972-1987).