Moving the Story, with Conviction: On the LDS Church and the Marriage Amendment
March 21, 2018For them,
there was no between
they believed the tale
and trekked to testify
and walked and walked
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Land’s End 1997
March 21, 2018The wind is simple
a thing with pacific bite.
Lifting foam tatters, cold.
The Word
March 21, 2018The Word was made Flesh
and the Flesh made Words.
He fed the Five Thousand
on words shaped like loaves
One Tree
March 21, 2018Outside my window
one lone dead tree
is standing firm
in brave desiccation
The Buzzard Tree
March 21, 2018Patty Lou looked out the door. She was waiting for her grandson, Robert, to come. She hadn’t seen him since her ninetieth birthday party three months earlier, when the whole family had come out to…
Charity Never
March 21, 2018This is how I remember it. The morning before my business flight to England, our two-year old daughter, Myra, started shrieking as if a Ninja assassin had infiltrated her room. I wrapped a pillow around…
“The Other” in the Limelight: One Perspective on the Publicity Surrounding the New LDS Temple in Finland
March 21, 2018Dialogue 40.4 (2007): 70–105
The purpose of this article is to begin filling that gap by discussing some of the publicity accompanying the recently built Helsinki FinlandTemple, located in the southern Finland city of Espoo.
Hands Raised Up: Corruption, Power, and Context in Bolivian Mormonism
March 21, 2018The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a strong authority structure. Power seemingly originates at the center of the Church, with the prophet and apostles, and radiates outward from there. This system of authority developed in the context of the Church’s efforts to colonize the U.S. Intermountain West, in its struggles with the U.S. federal government, and in its shift from a village to a suburban faith. Now this system must take account of its growth in many countries.
The Gospel in Communication: A Conversation with Communication Theorist John Durham Peters
March 21, 2018“John Durham Peters may well be the most original thinker in the broad field of communication and media studies in the United States.” So claims Michael Schudson, professor of communication at the University of California, San Diego.
A Defense of the Authority of Church Doctrine
March 21, 2018Authority is a key concept in Mormonism. If one were to ask most Mormons what makes their religion different from ordinary Christianity, many—perhaps most—would respond that Mormons believe in continuing revelation, modern prophets, additional scripture,…