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Letters to the Editor

John-Charles Duffy, Unhealthy Rhetoric
Robert A. Rees, Response to Tobler
Lori Levinson, A Final Thank You
Neal Chandler, Correction

The Homecoming

Elder Jeff Lee Johnson came home on January 24 at 2:14 in the afternoon. The plane had made its way north all that day, stopping in Miami, then Atlanta before finally arriving six minutes ahead…

Antidote for Solitude: The Life of Bonnie Bobet

The death of a loved one may evoke anguish, regret, confusion, anger, shock, bitterness, despair, relief, gratitude, nostalgia, even joy. But the death of my friend Bonnie evoked in me, both on that Friday morning…

Blind Tears

From that first dark day 
the Khmer Rouge, 
a scourge of scarlet locusts, 

Why Mormons Should Celebrate Holy Week

Each spring the Christian world celebrates the most important week in history—Passion Week or Holy Week, the time between Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem and his atonement, death, and resurrection. Throughout the world the majority…

Where Can I Turn for Peace?

9/11. For seeming forever, a call for help. Since 2001 a blast of grief swallowed like debris from the heap of rubble and human remains on the streets of Manhattan, of the New York until…

Heart Mountain

At the Japanese American National Museum
a pile of small stones, most 
no bigger than my thumb, each 
with a single kanji, 

Sexual Morality Revisited

It’s a boggy acre, surely. Is there any greater conundrum than human sexuality? Is there any aspect of our lives about which it is more difficult to generalize? Is there anything in our experience so…

Resurrection

What if the Resurrection were not pent 
for the vast reendowment of all flesh 
but occurred as if by chance, like birth 
(that miraculous appointment), and just 
as unnoticed. What if these were the terms?: