[…] message from children who had died a century before teaches a chaplain of the relationship between this world and the next. The more tentative essay begins with a dream a gay man has of […]
[…] and phrases. Her coworkers are friendly in subtle ways, like when they choose to watch Korean dramas with English as well as Chinese subtitles for Morgan’s benefit. Learning Chinese helps Morgan move on. Usually Morgan’s […]
[…] exactly do we move on to? As Mark Strand points out, “In a field / I am the absence / Of field. / This is / always the case. / Wherever I am / […]
The half-inch thickness of the thin paperback belies its contents. Some context on the limited edition, published by Mormon Artists Group, explains the dense publication: fifty hand-bound copies in Asahi silk, hand numbered, […]
Steven L. Peck has long been seen as a pioneer in the field of Mormon letters, because of his ability to move beyond the usual clichés and expectations that often come with fiction about […]
[…] disciple and a soulful artist, it goes beyond even that to be authentically moving. In a modern world where spirituality and religious belief is a place of tension and contention, Rogers has written from […]
[…] lawn watching them all rising into the sky, colored and cobbled out of the simplest things their world could afford them—one hundred birds teaching me to fly” (53). There are times in the book […]
Last year was the fortieth anniversary of Exponent II, a “modest, but sincere,” as we called it, little newspaper begun in Massachusetts written by and for LDS women. That brings it within two years […]
I would like to begin with an image. There is a tree in the middle of a barren field. A rod of iron extends from it. People jeer from a large building bounded by […]
The appearance of Sterling McMurrin’s new book The Theological Foundations of the Mormon Religion will be regarded as an event of first importance by anyone who has a serious interest in this subject. […]