When the Brightness Seems Most Distant
April 2, 2018[…] if he would ever get to painting this window or if it even mattered anymore in a world this different. He turned back to her because he knew she was watching him. She knew […]
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Old Man
April 2, 2018Once, when I was twenty-one and fretting about my future, my aunt said, “Why, you have the world by the tail! You can have anything you want!” Today I feel that I have the […]
Metaphysics over lunch
March 31, 2018English professor and rebel: Off campus, our sentences race the tabletop, garbed in wit and color. By the time food comes, our ideas dance
Hop Hornbeam
March 29, 2018In the Sacred Grove near Palmyra, New York, there’s hardly a tree old enough to have been
Under the Faultline
March 29, 2018The night before, the earth had jolted us, A ripple in our sleep till Dad called it A quake and brought to life the massive plates Beneath us gnashing the ages. It was
Plural Marriage, Singular Lives | Todd Compton, In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
March 29, 2018[…] Smith and those who were only posthumously sealed to him “for eternity.” Todd Compton’s massive and path breaking, 788-page study In Sacred Loneliness provides the most comprehensive assessment yet available of the lives of thirty-three […]
A Welcome Arrival, A Promising Standard | Will Bagley, ed., The Pioneer Camp of the Saints: The 1846 and 1847 Moron Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock
March 29, 2018[…] view. Whatever criticisms follow pale in importance to the fact that Bagley has produced this valuable book. The English-born Bullock himself mars his record with small minded complaints and petty criticism of the men around […]
Busing to Kolob | James W. Ure, Leaving the Fold: Candid Conversations with Inactive Mormons
March 29, 2018[…] Why, I wondered, did she keep plugging away at a religion so at odds with her lifestyle? The answer, when it finally came, was less complicated than I had anticipated: she wanted her kids […]
An Excellent Survey of the Headlines, But Not of the Heart | Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling, Mormon America: The Power and the Promise
March 28, 2018[…] with more interaction with practicing Mormons. And the deliberate focus on “what is distinctive” in the Mormon world (xi) downplays important similarities to other religious groups. The book’s strengths and weak nesses play out […]
The Life of an LDS Apostle | Richard D. Poll, Working the Divine Miracle: The Life of Apostle Henry D. Moyle
March 28, 2018[…] a “minor but not inconsequential factor “for a church striving to present a bipartisan image to the world (187). His successes in this calling, however, appear to have led eventually to his fall from […]