HARK, hearer, hear what I do; lend a thought now, make believe We are leafwhelmed somewhere with the hood Of some branchy bunchy bushybowered wood, Southern dene or Lancashire clough or Devon cleave, That […]
[…] my great-grandfather’s (Henry S. Tanner) family. He decided to take his first polygamous wife ten years after the first Manifesto. He had already been the mission president of the California mission and had completed […]
Otis Redding and Ulysses knew something about sitting at the edge of the world, trying to remember the changing shades of the sea at home,
The angels’ wings are molting, so I’ll make my pen. Sound me down to earth or hell, but let me take my pen.
The 2010 videogame Epic Mickey, before its release, was looking to be one of the more controversial games of the year. And that’s without any sex or decapitation. What made it so controversial? […]
In 1886, Sister Sallie Stephensen of Fairview, Idaho, was possessed of an evil spirit for a sabbath of weeks. The congregation fasted and prayed, but
The fever is on me now. Since morning I can do nothing but crack pistachios between my thumbs and listen to the woody tinkle of their shells hitting the floor. I mutter haiku […]
My husband grew up backpacking, and it was one of the conditions of our marriage that I would learn to backpack too. I do it now, and occasionally even enjoy it, but it’s definitely […]
In this Dialogue podcast Michael Quinn discusses findings from his new book The Mormon Hierarchy: Wealth and Corporate Power. From the Miller Eccles website: “The first two volumes of Dr. Quinn’s best-selling Mormon Hierarchy series were titled Origins […]
John Christopher Thomas is a Pentecostal who studies the Book of Mormon. He spoke at the Miller Eccles group on his new book A Pentecostal Reads the Book of Mormon: A Literary and Theological […]