About the Artist: Mark England
March 18, 2018In my earlier drawings I focused on line and the wealth of information it could convey. Now I am working through the challenges of color and value in the context of issues I have continued…
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Reaping Where We Have Not Sown
March 18, 2018Moments after hearing the bishop’s voice ask if I could speak on the importance of developing talents, another voice spoke the phrase “you reap where you do not sow” into my awareness. As we all know, these words come from the parable of the talents. The phrase is part of the address of the last slave to give account of his dealings to his master. He says: “Master, I knew you were a harsh man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed. So I was afraid and I went and hid your talent in the ground.
The Beginnings of Latter-day Plurality | George D. Smith, Nauvoo Polygamy: “…but we called it celestial marriage.”
March 18, 2018George D. Smith’s Nauvoo Polygamy: “… but we called it celestial marriage” is an extremely important contribution to the history of polygamy and to Mormon history. Carefully written and the result of exhaustive research, it provides many significant insights into the beginnings of Mormon polygamy.
Nauvoo Polygamy: The Latest Word | George D. Smith, Nauvoo Polygamy: “…but we called it celestial marriage.”
March 18, 2018In 1994, businessman and Mormon history researcher George D. Smith wrote “Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46: A Preliminary Demographic Report” (Dialogue 27, no. 1 [Spring 1994]: 1-72), which contained groundbreaking research on 153 men and hundreds more women who were involved with plural marriage in Nauvoo. Recently, his long-awaited follow-up to that article, a 705-page book, has been printed by Signature Books, of which Smith is the publisher. In September 2009, the John Whitmer Historical Association awarded it Best Book of the Year.
Body and Blood
March 18, 2018It’s six o’clock, time for dinner and Little House on the Prairie reruns. I walk up the stairs as my mom is pulling some string beans out of the microwave. She asks me if I’ll…
Oceanography
March 18, 2018Some say we came
from the sea
and some can name
the way
we shall return:
Relinquishing
March 18, 2018Tibetan monks descend on
the nation’s capital
with healing in their saffron robes
and laughter in their chants.
Gentle Dad
March 18, 2018You chose a wife for her beauty and vulnerability
and planted her in your inherited acre
where your sweat and intuition shaped the fruits
of your coupling. Two girls and two boys looked
Self-Portrait as Burnt Offering
March 18, 2018The prophet says:
I have earned a right to the voice of prophecy.
I have suffered and seen the future
and suffered by the seeing.
A Perfect World
March 18, 2018Shy people would be kings and queens
of their own secret realms.
They might require everyone to wear sunglasses
for an hour every day while conversing
with strangers.