Bode and Iris
July 17, 2019Listen to the piece here. It may seem odd that an experienced fornicator like Bode Carpenter would get the girl pregnant in the first place—particularly because he carried a condom in the watch pocket of…
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New & Everlasting
July 17, 2019The former widow
and the former widower
seem happy
Sweater
July 17, 2019Horizontal stripes
black and white
The Moldau in a Utah Living Room
July 17, 2019I most recall the river music. Smetana’s Moldau
meandered often into the air at our house,
European classical sounding in the high Utah parroquia.
The Mormon Peace Gathering
July 17, 2019Last Vegas, Nevada : March, 1992
Fresh from Mountain Meadows, headed home
from the Nevada Test Site, we were high
from crawling under barbed wire, and trespassing,
when I flipped the doe into the suicide lane.
Sunday School
July 17, 2019Each week the teacher gave us
something to be grateful for,
for we saw
with perfect pity,
Judas
July 17, 2019Surviving my mother by twelve years, my father
became my perfect friend,
having evolved from the anxious and overly-protective
father I’d known as a teenager.
Timo’s Blessing
July 17, 2019I remember that the sun shone warm but the air felt cool. A robin would have chirped in the branches that shaded my father, who was immersed in the savory smoke rising from the built-in…
Plain and Precious Things Lost: The Small Plates of Nephi
July 17, 2019Dialogue 52.4 (Winter 2019): 85
Such inconsistencies may cause some readers to question the credibility of the text. Upon observing doctrinal andprophetic variation within the Book of Mormon, some dismiss the book’s divinity
Empirical Witnesses of the Gold Plates
July 17, 2019Dialogue 52.2 (Summer 2019): 59–84
Due to the fact that visiting with angels isn’t part of the normal human experience, it makes it hard for historians to prove that it happened through an academic investigation. The best way, as discussed by the author, to determine what really happened is by studying other individual’s first-hand accounts about the Gold Plates.