Dialogue 33.4 (Winter 2000): 91 – 119 In 1967, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York made a gift to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of eleven papyrus fragments once […]
[…] to wash before storing, and the same curvature of the spine in the back fence. But the world has turned in your absence. You return to your office, slip in a computer disk—the very […]
[…] version in 1 Nephi 10:12-14 focuses on the House of Israel, which is clearly associated with new world adherents rather than the Jews, who are usually specifically called “the Jews” in the Book of […]
This book has been published to significant acclaim, winning the Best Book award from the Mormon History Association for 2001. I agree with much of this praise, but nevertheless have serious reservations about some aspects […]
[…] look forward to their visits, especially our children. Grandpa is pleasant and takes a detached interest in the children. Sometimes he mixes them up with his other grandchildren, and he has a hard time […]
[…] said I was Christian. “No, what religion. . .Lutheran? Methodist? Presbyterian?” They seemed to think the Christian world was still locked in the nineteenth century sectarian squabbles they’d read about. These kids—who called the […]
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