The Nape of the Neck
April 29, 2020[…] streaks along my haunches and flat buttocks from my swollen summers. My powerful arms had held the world up, and they were chiseled, but in contrast, my stomach was doughy. I really hated my […]
[…] streaks along my haunches and flat buttocks from my swollen summers. My powerful arms had held the world up, and they were chiseled, but in contrast, my stomach was doughy. I really hated my […]
To the editor: Let me begin by outlining what does and does not motivate me in writing a response to Taylor Petrey’s carefully executed, unmistakably informed, rightly concerned, and entirely productive essay, “Toward a […]
In this issue, Armand Mauss looks back over the decades since his book The Angel and the Beehive was published, with its seminal theory of LDS assimilation and retrenchment, while Fred Gedicks looks forward […]
This morning I helped a friend bury her dog A dog that she once didn’t want Taken in under duress But in time grew affection for.
[…] creating mythic figures of their founders who are more like gods than humans. What they know of world affairs seems limited and often wrong—believing things that confirm what they already think and holding in […]
In this Dialogue podcast Thomas Wayment discusses “ The New Testament: A Translation for Latter-day Saints A Study Bible.” From the Miller Eccles website: “I would like to share the story that is not […]
[…] life. At the outset, Mormon women and men were purposefully dispatched to such universities to “gather the world’s knowledge to Zion.” Simpson, drawing on unpublished diaries, among other materials, shows how LDS students commonly […]
In Jacob we read eight times the Lord lamented that it grieved him to lose the branches of his vineyard. Surely it grieves him to lose those who have left the Church today. There […]
[…] one, even if it has no broken lines? For most of us who read and love poetry, the answer is, “I just know.” There is the buzz of new vision from a surprising metaphor […]
[…] wrote about his séance attendance and the spirits that visited him to offer insight into the spiritual world. This included the spirit of Joseph Smith, who Lyman wrote highly of in both his mortal […]