Baptism
March 22, 2018The old man bent and balding is lowered into the water. At that small moment of burial he remembers his mother, thinks
The old man bent and balding is lowered into the water. At that small moment of burial he remembers his mother, thinks
[…] from Hollister to Santa Cruz late morning, I stop at San Juan Bautista to grab a sandwich. All the signs point toward the Mission, so I keep driving. Brown-skinned Mexican kids swirl around the plaza
Three times I take his words into my mouth and make them thunder from my tongue. His final speech will not remain unsung in me.
That morning you came to me I saw the lamp arising in your beard, a flash of solder and fire wisping in your robes and hair
[…] A prolific writer (thus redeeming his C in freshman English),[1] Widtsoe was insightful and occasionally aphoristic: “The world is organized for the average, not the exceptional person” (10). “One does not need to be […]
And there she was, Kathryn Kuhlman* strolling the stage at the Civic, parting a sea of applause, her gown like an angel that got away, so pure it might have been empty but for […]
We’re in Ogden, Utah, on the second day of May, heading home to Orem after a Sunday afternoon with grandchildren. Carol is driving south on Washington Boulevard passing low business buildings whose shadows are […]
[…] Criticism. After The Company We Keep, Wayne focused on applying his brand of ethical pluralism to teaching English. With Marshall Gregory, he wrote The Harper and Row Rhetoric and The Harper and Row Reader. […]
Unquestionably, Dialogue has a tradition. It has been on the Mormon scene for forty years now, and those who manage, edit, and read it are determined to see it make another forty.
Robert S. Wicks and Fred R. Foister selected the title Junius & Joseph to emphasize their thesis that Joseph Smith’s death was a political assassination. The authors point out that the Junius tracts were […]