About the Artist
March 22, 2018Kathy Wilson is the owner and manager of Sego Gallery and Framing Center in Salt Lake City. Her paintings featured on the cover of this issue, Tulips and Aspens at Fish Lake, were done in watercolor.…
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Sinnamon Twist | Linda Hoffman Kimball, The Marketing of “Sister B”
March 22, 2018Mild-mannered Mormon housewife uses her background in chemistry and family science to whip up a batch of tantalizing cinnamon fragrance as a last-minute party favor for a visiting teaching luncheon. Little did Donna Brooks realize…
“Gender Troubles” and Mormon Women’s Voices | Laura L. Bush, Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth Century Mormon Women’s Autobiographical Acts
March 22, 2018“Faithful transgression,” a concept developed by Laura L. Bush in this thought-provoking study of Mormon women’s autobiographies, is a concept worth keeping. It’s not “loyal opposition” because it doesn’t openly or politically oppose; faithful transgressions…
Murder, with a Side of Philosophy | Paul M. Edwards, The Angel Acronym
March 22, 2018Paul Edwards’s first mystery novel, The Angel Acronym, is not exactly a religious novel, but it is a novel in which the characters spend a great deal of time talking about religion. And the religion…
A Stark Contrast | Duwayne R. Anderson, Farewell to Eden: Coming to Terms with Mormonism and Science
March 22, 2018Duwayne R. Anderson, a highly accomplished and acclaimed physicist specializing in fiber optics, offers readers a thorough examination of the role of science in his disillusionment from Mormonism. The book provides compelling evidence that Latter-day…
Baptism
March 22, 2018The old man bent and balding
is lowered into the water.
At that small moment of burial
he remembers his mother, thinks
El Cordero de Dios
March 22, 2018Driving from Hollister to Santa Cruz late morning, I
stop at San Juan Bautista to grab a sandwich.
All the signs point toward the Mission, so I keep driving.
Brown-skinned Mexican kids swirl around the plaza
A Spinster Physician Weeps While Speaking Her Sermon on Abstinence: A Sonnet without Rhyme
March 22, 2018In her fiftieth year and all these other
smug and satisfied people’s children
gaping faces from the pews like ripe pears
and what can she say—a professional woman,
Triptych-History of the Church
March 22, 2018I feel grace descend like whiskey-scented
oil poured over me in the upper room on
my way to heaven. I dance in the heat of
a fire, like ghosts following Sitting Bull
Martin in Me
March 22, 2018Three times I take his words into my mouth
and make them thunder from my tongue.
His final speech will not remain unsung in me.