Coming Out of the Evolution Closet
March 27, 2018Dialogue 34.4 (Winter 2002): 143–145
Sometimes, I seem to be the only person in the entire church who
knows that it’s okay to believe in evolution and still be a faithful, believing Mormon.
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The Passing Lane
March 27, 2018Through the glow
of dashboard lights
reflected in the glass,
I watch a plow drop its blade
and scrape the ice,
knicking the blacktop.
Helaman’s Stripling Warriors and the Principles of Hypovolemic Shock
March 27, 2018The story of Helaman and his stripling warriors is well known to students of the Book of Mormon. In brief, around 75 B.C. the people of Ammon, who originally were Lamanites, converted to the Lord…
John Willard Young, Brigham Young, and the Development of Presidential Succession in the LDS Church
March 27, 2018On November 22, 1855, eleven-year-old John Willard Young, son of Brigham Young, received his endowment, undoubtedly accompanied by his father. Brigham Young clearly felt there was something out of the ordinary in John Willard, which…
Miracle of Wood
March 27, 2018—that wood could come in
that thin and blonde
for kindling
after the dark bark,
after the ax whack
and the crack
of white opening,
the stria of wood
gouging, indenting
my armloaded skin
Spreading Zion Southward, Part I: Improving Efficiency and Equity in the Allocation of Church Welfare Resources
March 27, 2018The year was 1983. Sister Mercedes Pico de Coello was dying of tuberculosis, coughing up blood. A frail and thin 43-year-old mother of twelve, her life could probably have been saved for $200. As a missionary, I had baptized her in 1980. As a BYU student, I had just spent $850 for this return visit to Ecuador. Neither of us was aware that her illness could be fatal if untreated. With an annual family income of $1200, she could not afford the treatment she needed. I considered giving her the $200, but ultimately I did not do so. Three years later she died from the disease.
Two Studies of Health and Religion in Utah
March 27, 2018
Christmas Card from Siple Station, Antarctica
March 27, 2018Awake all night where no night conies
she trasmits waves into the sky
from sixty feet beneath snow.
Some arc into the solar winds
The Human Genome Project, Modern Biology, and Mormonism: A Viable Marriage?
March 27, 2018Dialogue 34.4 (Winter 2002): 61–71
THE WORLD IS RAPIDLY CHANGING as new technologies change the way we think, act, and live. This is particularly true with the many changes biology has wrought in our lives over the last few years.
Syllabus
March 27, 2018Astronomy
The earth
Or sky wobbles,
We don’t know which