[…] be struck naked by the Lord” (149); that Nephi and his family on arrival in the New World “split into three groups—the Nephites, the Jaredites, and the Lamanites” (155); that the Lamanites were turned […]
He disengaged the gear, ground the key forward. The motor clicked. The steerage went heavy in his hands. He pushed the signal bar upward with his palm, crossed lanes. “What is it?” she asked. […]
[…] is really what this book is about. That something is the freedom to discover, to engage the world with the love that is beyond the range of thought and ideas and the merely social-historical […]
Leroy Robertson was one of my mentors. I played in the Brigham Young University orchestra under him in 1945-46, studied music theory from him as a graduate student at the University of Utah in […]
[…] her other hand free to stop her nose against the water. The prayer would be pronounced in English, the daughter translating since no one else could. Afterwards, because her daughter couldn’t be asked to […]
From my Mystic Life after near-death accident More than a state of being A new being Suffused in light
[…] stutter, smoking butts with lipstick. Grandma’d long since left Walker, after losing that last chance to win. The horse’s name was Pepe. “Mother, it was close,” he shook his head, looked down, then threw […]
The ranger stoops to toss a stick away and points to a narrow hole dug in the mud. “Snakes,” she says, “are plentiful this year; there’s some bubonic plague in rodents here.”
[…] compelled to defend them against her venom. As Jessie’s character evolves, however, Mormonism is totemic of the search for a kind of instant meaning that all of the characters seek. Neither Mor monism nor […]
[…] though our picture of the Prophet remains filtered by our greater or lesser ability to understand his world, this should not stop us from striving for greater clarity. The Prophet Puzzle: Interpretive Essays on […]