For serious readers of scripture, the publication of a major study edition is cause for great rejoicing. The HarperCollins Study Bible and the major Oxford Study Bibles (the Jewish Study Bible, the Catholic Study Bible,…
Listen 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…
The former widow
and the former widower
seem happy
Horizontal stripes
black and white
I most recall the river music. Smetana’s Moldau
meandered often into the air at our house,
European classical sounding in the high Utah parroquia.
Last 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.
Each week the teacher gave us
something to be grateful for,
for we saw
with perfect pity,
Surviving 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.
I 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…
Dialogue 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