A Shaker Sister’s Hymnal
March 18, 2018The 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 […]
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The Long-Distance Mormon | R. A. Christmas, The Kingdom of God or Nothing!
March 18, 2018With his poem, ” The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Mormon,” R. A. (Robert Allen) Christmas, among the most flickeringly idiosyncratic lights in the Mormon literary cosmos, may have (purposely or unconsciously) described himself as […]
About the Artist: Mark England
March 18, 2018In 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 […]
Nixon Was Wrong: Religion and the Presidency, 1960, 2008, and 2012— An Interview with Shaun A. Casey
September 3, 2011[…] Shaun Casey, a professor of Christian Ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. Casey’s recent book, The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) formed […]
Brattle Street Elegy: Matzoh for Sacrament
March 17, 2018I 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
March 17, 2018[…] 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
March 17, 2018Truman 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
March 16, 2018[…] 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
March 16, 2018[…] 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). […]
from “A Paris Journal”
March 16, 2018[…] * * * So far the only testimony I’ve understood completely: a tourist from Japan speaking in English and being translated into French. He arrived this morning and was still undecided: attend church or […]