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…
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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…
Lions, Brothers, and the Idea of an Indian Nation: The Mexican Revolution in the Minds of Anthony W. Ivins and Rey L. Pratt, 1910-1917
March 28, 2018In 1915 Mormon apostle James E. Talmadge published Jesus the Christ. Speculating on what Pontius Pilate must have been thinking when Christ stood before him, Talmadge concluded it “was clear to the Roman governor that…
Without Question
March 28, 2018Did you ever start to think
what happens to saliva while you sleep?
Don’t.
Correlated Praise: The Development of the Spanish Hymnal
March 28, 2018Statisticians predict that by 2012 native Spanish speakers will surpass native English speakers as the LDS church’s largest language group.[1] Clearly, the church is about to reach a dramatic turning point in its international growth.…
Eve’s Psalm
March 28, 2018My fingers, like God’s fingers,
point to the dawn of salvation.
I clasp this pomegranate, its seeds like
worlds extending our isolated existence.
When The Mormon Church Invested in Southern Nevada Gold Mines
March 28, 2018During the worst economic depression in the history of the United States up to 1929, that of the 1890’s, the highest leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, along with several other church members, purchased a cluster of promising mines and claims in Nye County, Nevada. Desperate for funds after a decade-long judicial onslaught by the federal government, which included confiscation and misuse of church property, the church saw this gold mining enterprise as a good way to recoup church financial security.