Lectures on Death at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
April 2, 2018[…] with frozen comets and one still hand. “As for the plague, don’t touch a rodent here. Don’t feed them, and be wary of the squirrel that draws too close or falters as it moves. […]
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A Ministry of Blessing: Nicholas Groesbeck Smith
April 1, 2018[…] who, all agree, loved people and was instinctively hospitable, had to manage this constantly fluctuating household and feed an ever-changing number of people with the intermittent help of one European servant girl and some […]
Stealing the Reaper’s Grim: The Challenge of Dying Well
March 29, 2018I first encountered death at age three when my infant brother, after only one day of life, succumbed to respiratory failure. I have few memories of the viewing, but do recall the delicate blue veins on the side of his infant scalp. There was great sorrow in the chapel. But, as the years passed, his death became an abstraction. Now, over three decades later, after witnessing a fair amount of human suffering and death, both through personal experiences and my professional role, the process of dying is no longer an abstraction to me. I have, in fact, become a reluctant authority.
Was Jesus a Feminist?
March 29, 2018The answer to the question, “Was Jesus a feminist?” depends on how you define feminism. Just as we have come to realize that there was not just one monolithic “Judaism” in Jesus’ time, but many…
The Charity of Silence
March 29, 2018[…] and could hear my father breathing through his nose the way he did when he was carrying feed bags or setting fence posts. The silence that followed was deep and unbroken. I don’t remember […]
Parallelomania and the Study of Latter-day Scripture: Confirmation, Coincidence, or the Collective Unconscious?
March 29, 2018Dialogue 33.2 (Summer 2001):139–173
This article looks at some of the ways parallels have been used by Nibley in the exposition of latter-day scripture, the types of parallels employed, and some of the problems that arise from this comparative exercise.
An Act of Faith
March 28, 2018Flat, oval galaxies float—indeterminately
Distant yet distinct—above. . .glimmer and prepare
To fade into determinate darkness.
Preaching the Gospel of Church and Sex: Mormon Women’s Fiction in the Young Woman’s Journal, 1889-1910
March 28, 2018[…] her husband was displeased. Jakeman narrated: She was learning to crush back sorrow into her soul, to feed upon the vitality of her youth, that he might not see it and be annoyed, and […]
An Expanded Definition of Priesthood? Some Present and Future Consequences
March 28, 2018[…] to which members remain committed to their organization. Those who experience personal growth and recognition tend to feed their positive experiences back to the organization. They become motivated to do more, to spend extra […]
What the Church Means to People Like Me
March 28, 2018A natural reaction to my title—since this is not a testimony meeting in which each speaker is his own subject—might be, “Who cares?” For who in this congregation, with the possible exception of my brother,…