[…] Golden nevertheless presses forward that evening with pluck and improvisation, trying ineffectively to put his house in order; but what ails this house and its inhabitants lies beyond his powers of perception and remediation. Much […]
[…] Seine holding hands or walking along a deck in white linen resort wear as the moon rose over the ocean. Boyd was tall and handsome and smart and important, and he was married to […]
Carrol and Edwin Firmage contributed papers to the fall issue that review Mormon history during the nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries and scriptural precedent, in an attempt to motivate a Mormon audience toward […]
[…] first extramarital affair unfolds almost as a matter of duty (144); in another she attempts damage control over lunch with one of the “other women” (180). At one point, after waiting all night for […]
[…] All sins are just variations on that same desire to do something else when you’re already doing something. Multitaskers are children of the devil. You can’t serve two masters. Divided attention is just dressed-up inattention.
I’m Lila, a heat-drugged woman announces, edging her weight out of an overstuffed room into the hall. How can I help you? I explain we are his family. She says she is sorry. He […]
[…] also got a wax head and some stage blood. Even though we have a tight budget, we buy stage blood because what we spend on blood we save in sweat. With stage blood, the […]
George Handley’s Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River practices theology the way a doctor practices CPR—not as a secondhand theory but as a chest-cracking, lung-inflating, life-saving intervention. The book models […]
We could say that Joseph Smith Junior went to the woods for the same reason Henry David Thoreau went: He wished to live deliberately. Or maybe we should say that Thoreau went for the […]
[…] gets the unfortunate—and, I think, inaccurate—sense that Latter-day Saints are only participating in interreligious dialogue opportunistically, in order to find a further platform for preaching. Another disconnect reinforces this image. Almost uniformly, the contributors […]