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A Shaker Sister’s Hymnal

The frost grows fierce upon the pane, crystals cluster in tight geometry. Inside my glove my fingers freeze. I gasp the cold until I am dumb: until my eyes are arctic marbles rolling […]

About the Artist: Mark England

In my earlier drawings I focused on line and the wealth of information it could convey. Now I am working through the challenges of color and value in the context of issues I have […]

Brattle Street Elegy: Matzoh for Sacrament

I first entered the Longfellow Park chapel on September 4, 1977. It was fast Sunday. I was a new physics grad student at MIT and a convert, baptized only about six months previously. This […]

Brattle Street Elegy: Treasures

[…] the generations of friends and mentors I met in that building. Its destruction by fire is stunning news. Happily the experiences and memories, wrestlings and witnesses that affected me in that building are worked […]

Truman Madsen, Architect

Truman Madsen was a speaker extraordinaire, one of the finest orators in the Church, able to speak extemporaneously in a captivating voice. Alert to his audience, he was able to thread the pieces of […]

Characters to Care About | Jonathan Langford, No Going Back

[…] sanctimony. Of course, it didn’t start with California’s Proposition 8. No, that river’s path pushes back, through the ’90s and the Church’s involvement with the matter of gay marriage in Hawaii, to the experiences […]

Pirouettes on Strings | Phyllis Barber, Raw Edges

[…] ragged selves fit seamlessly into humanity, and how this unity can salve our individual wounds. Indeed, Barber’s search for self ends as a plea for personal transcendence: “Help me out of myself, please” (214). […]