The Blessing
March 20, 2018[…] bucked myself up and put on a good face. We talked, catching up on all the family news and remembering the Nauvoo trip. My wife sat in a chair at the head of the […]
[…] bucked myself up and put on a good face. We talked, catching up on all the family news and remembering the Nauvoo trip. My wife sat in a chair at the head of the […]
[…] there than anywhere I had been, but still the Portlanders were my people and represented the real world in my mind. It was that world I wanted to return to as I began my […]
[…] Burlington, Vermont, witnessed an epiphany in her “Dating and Friendship” course. One by one, her students admitted to themselves and to each other their profound disappointment in the sexual culture of their school—the “hook-up culture.”
[…] insult of hatred. This is why we are all standing here today. We stand to tell the world that we want equality for everyone. We stand to tell the world that we want marriage […]
Six cars pulled through the intersection, one after the other over the course of an hour, but none of them was hers. Barefoot, Bart waited on the slat bench outside his front door, picking […]
[…] resurrected, she might want them back,” he explains cunningly. “Everyone gets resurrected at the end of the world, Dad said so.” Mum lets out a big puff of air. “That’s a long way off.” […]
[…] discs, their cases held together with a rubber band, each marked La Pietà, 1/21/01 in permanent marker. The recording itself is perfectly legal; I arranged for it with an ebullient phone contact at NPR’s […]
In The American Religion, critic Harold Bloom begins his analysis of Mormonism with this well-known prophesy about the future of Mormon literature: A major American poet, perhaps one called a Gentile by the Latter-day […]
[…] by the emerging forms of the novel and capital-A Art, the first person arrived in the modern world with a chip on his shoulder, itching for a fight with authority, institution, and tradition. The […]
David Conley Nelson’s Moroni and the Swastika, although based on the author’s doctoral dissertation, is not at heart a scholarly book. It is, rather, a polemical work dressed up in academic regalia. While its […]