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The Ideology of Empire: A View from “America’s Attic”

March 23, 2018

LDS attitudes towards war and peace in general have been covered fairly comprehensively in the past decade or so. The attitudes are complex and generally attempt to strike a balance between the duty to defend one’s life, family, property and liberties on the one hand, with the commandment to renounce war as a tool of Satan on the other. While there is more than enough material in LDS scriptures and commentary to support a number of positions, until very recently any dichotomy in LDS attitudes towards specific wars has generally been seen only in the context of U.S. foreign policy.

Movement: Out of Doors, Out of Town, In Dangerous Times

March 23, 2018

To that lit spot ahead 
is as far as you’ll walk: 
open green, bounded by pale shrubs 
you can’t name, sky 
in clabbery cloud, light blue showing through. 
Storm coming, your father would say. 

Gene, My Eternal Brother*

March 23, 2018

Speak now in the voice of peace. 
The poets of the world are rising, 
rising against the storm. 
Speak in your poet’s voice, 

The Possibilities of Mormon Peacebuilding

March 23, 2018

In 1992, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, then Secretary-General of the United Nations, announced his Agenda for Peace. Within it, he encouraged member states to become more actively involved in “peacebuilding,” a vaguely defined term that seeks to…

Editor’s Introduction: Wicks, Modems, and the Winds of War

March 23, 2018

Standing as we still do on the brink of a new millennium, Latter-day Saints share with their neighbors and friends across the globe a profound interest in the fortunes of twenty-first-century war and peace. Not only do we wish to live our lives and raise our children under a quiet sky in safety and peace, far from the addictive savagery to which humankind sinks in time of war, but as an increasingly international church committed to sending missionaries into all the countries of the world, who could dispute the advantages if all those countries were at peace?

A Tribute for Service Well Rendered

March 23, 2018

The Bishop in Neal Chandler’s story “The Call” counsels a young man: “It’s not easy to be a real writer. . . .” How true, especially when you want, as did the bishop in Neal’s…

Letters to the Editor

March 23, 2018

Douglas F. Tobler, Writing Something That Matters
Jerry and Dixie Partridge, Good Wishes to the New Staff
Robert Rees, In Praise of Editorial Teams

About the Artist

March 23, 2018

Maryann Webster was born in San Francisco and grew up in north ern California. She received an MFA and a Research Fellowship award from the University of Utah where she now teaches. Recent exhibitions of…

Christmas Conflict: 2001

March 23, 2018

How were we to know 
            through the thick, smoking days, 
            the awful rubble of terror 

U.S. Navy Photo: “Dawn Landing on Wake Island”

March 23, 2018

I knew it was dawn 
With the sun blurring whitely 
Through the gray clouds, 
But I’m glad someone wrote that. 
The light and the words make a bridge 
Across the water to the sand.