Too frequently, I have the experience of anxiously awaiting Sunday School to start so I can ask about a text from the week’s reading that’s relevant to what’s happening in the world, only to be…
According to Oxford University Press, Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader is “the first comprehensive critical examination of Mormon art.” This grand claim stakes out the territory that the book purports to cover: It presents…
In the nineteenth century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints captured the French imagination, making Mormons and Mormonism prevalent themes in journalism, art, literature, politics, and popular culture. In Marianne Meets the Mormons:…
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The rise of anti-Masonry was a significant historical and political occurrence in the United States in the late 1820s while Joseph Smith, Jr. worked on the Book of Mormon in 1829.[1] Scholars often invoke anti-Masonry…
Watching the boy rage into being
I recall the parting restraints
Arranged through infancy ascending
Through tantrum to disenchantment
A pod of pelicans patrols the shore
like angels guarding the gates of heaven.
I feel your breath upon my neck—the heat
and dampness of each sigh, the way each pant,
each lungful pulls at me. Your eagerness
echoes throughout the lonely dark. A fear
i am a good person
i tell myself
i am a good person
i feel remorse