Curious
March 20, 2018Curious it is
the simple means employed by God
to bring great things to pass.
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Change
March 20, 2018It’s coming on fall,
time for a change, whispers the wind through the leaves.
Man, dust
March 20, 2018My holes remained whole
at your arrival.
I stood there, watching, impotent—
cut the purple Nike rope,
Multi-level Marketing
March 20, 2018You may not appreciate this but
I once ran into Hugh Nibley—
at Smith’s market in Provo—
you know, the guy who wrote all
Glaucus
March 20, 2018We can’t say what Glaucus knew
From watching storms crush and reshape
The surge, what voices he’d heard
When the tide swelled onto the beach,
The Scholar as Celebrant | Terryl L. Givens, People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture
March 20, 2018Terryl Givens is doing a great deal in People of Paradox, winner of the Mormon History Association’s 2007 Best Book award. He offers an ambitious interpretation of Mormon beliefs and then sets out to show…
Candor, Craftsmanship, and a Worthy Subject | Edward L. Kimball, Lengthen Your Stride: The Presidency of Spencer W. Kimball
March 20, 2018In the interests of full disclosure, I hasten to acknowledge that I was involved in the early stages of editing this manuscript and, as I recall, continuously urged Edward Kimball, whom I count, with his…
Who Brought Forth This Christmas Demon
March 20, 2018Listen to the piece here. Tim’s wife left him with three dozen blue spruce still trussed up on the truck and better than fifty juniper, Scotch, red cedar, and Douglas on the lot. She left…
The Gilded Door
March 20, 2018It sat on a quiet end of Main Street, just a block down from the Shore line State Bank and the Sunshine Laundry. Within its dark cavern, you could lose yourself in fantasy. It was…
“Rising above Principle”: Ezra Taft Benson as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1953–61, Part 1
March 20, 2018Contemplating the 1952 U.S. general elections, David O. McKay, lifelong Republican and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, eagerly anticipated a Republican sweep. At the news of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s decisive win as the thirty-fourth American president, McKay was elated. “In my opinion,” the venerable seventy-eight-year-old Church leader recorded, “it is the greatest thing that has happened in a hundred years for our country.”