Heart Mountain
March 23, 2018At the Japanese American National Museum
a pile of small stones, most
no bigger than my thumb, each
with a single kanji,
DiaBLOGue
Sexual Morality Revisited
March 23, 2018It’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
March 23, 2018What 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?:
Relief Society’s Golden Years: The Magazine
March 23, 2018My mother was an enthusiastic, devoted member of the Relief Society—the old Relief Society, the pre-block-meeting-schedule, pre-Correlation Relief Society. She belonged to a Relief Society that LDS women chose to join by paying a small…
“Changing Times Bring Changing Conditions”: Relief Society, 1960 to the Present
March 23, 2018The 1960s marked for Latter-day Saints the commencement of a new era of consolidation and growth that have led to multiple changes in the Relief Society. The organization experienced the automatic enrollment of women in…
What Does God Write in His Franklin Planner? The Paradoxes of Providence, Prophecy, and Petitionary Prayer
March 23, 2018The doctrine of divine providence states that God is the supreme governor of the world—past, present, and future. Different versions of the doctrine depend on different interpretations of governance. The strongest version of this doctrine comes from the Calvinists who assert that each and every event in the history of the world is planned by God and happens only because God wills it, including anything that humans do.
Mormons and the Omnis: The Dangers of Theological Speculation
March 23, 2018Engaging in doctrinal speculation, and then later adopting these speculations as religious dogmas, is as old as recorded history. One example is the adoption of the traditional geocentric, flat-earth cosmology of antiquity into the doctrinal…
The Long Honeymoon: Jan Shipps among the Mormons
March 23, 2018This essay had its origins in a projected review of Jan Shipps’s Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000). I have expanded it into an assessment…
Letters to the Editor
March 23, 2018Mike Oborn, Song of Songs
Robert M. Price, Reply to Professor Hamblin
About the Artist
March 23, 2018Janis Mars Wunderlich, born in Akron, Ohio, in 1970, received a BFA J from Brigham Young University (1992) and an MFA from the Ohio State University (1994). She has given numerous lectures and workshops throughout…