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Should Mormon Women Speak Out? Thoughts on Our Place in the World

I am happy to pay tribute to Gene England, a vivid and significant twentieth-century intellectual of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Gene influenced many Mormons with his rigorous ethics, his lived religion, his human interactions, and his ability to record his life and get it all down. He certainly influenced me. 

Entertaining Angels Unaware

[…] deeply.  “He doesn’t like missionaries, because he knows that what he’s doing is wrong.”  “Why do you feed him if you don’t want him to come over?” Soeur Paxton asked.  “It’s not so simple […]

Man, dust

[…] I could do  but watch.  My nipples do not bleed at your munching mouth,  I do not feed you with milk and blood.  The quell of your cries comes,  But not at my cold […]

The Gilded Door

[…] of these,” said Ada, “you could actually sit through Kevin’s football games, instead of excusing yourself to feed the baby.”  “I could. Though I don’t know why I’m hiding my bosoms when Xaviera’s showing […]

The Beings I Love Are Creatures

Lately, I have been thinking a lot about mortality—meetings and partings and human frailty. The poet Geoffrey Hill is retiring from teaching at Boston University this year, and a few weeks ago I heard that he had said life gets easier when you accept the fact that you live in a fallen world. Wilbur Jackson of our bishopric furthered the development of my thought on this topic during that wonderful fifth-Sunday April meeting when he reminded us that we’ve left Paradise. We’re not in Paradise; it’s gone, so we’re going to suffer, get sick, sin, and die. The important thing, Jackson reminded us, is to be on the right path so we can return to Paradise. 

Dialogue Sunday School Mosiah 29 to Alma 4

Dialogue Sunday School Mosiah 29-Alma 4 30 May 2020 David Charles Gore Good morning, friends. I want to thank Taylor Petrey for inviting me to present today and the Dialogue ​ board for their support […]