[…] late August 1990. Two weeks earlier, I had undergone a conversion experience that had jolted me from world weary agnosticism to a fervent belief in God and the Restoration. Simultaneously I left the rural […]
[…] whose members provided the bulk of the funding for its passage, nearly $40m. The issue was a breaking point for many in the church and the above roundtable attempts to offer a variety of […]
The story of Nephi occupies a prominent place in the hearts of the Latter-day Saint people. As a young man, he was singularly affected by his father’s teachings and, despite his relative youth, […]
Michael Slade has been photographing all over the world for the past twenty years. A Cache Valley native, Slade received his B.A. degree in photography from Utah State University (1994) and is currently an […]
Again the curlew calls its name. Where we’ve camped over years, the sky has already distanced itself from the heat press of summer, the lakeshore fluent with ridges only seasons of water can scroll.
Time for Galatians 3:28? Thanks to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich for her article, “Mormon Women in the History of Second-Wave Feminism” (43, no. 2 [Summer 2010]: 45–63). Is there, I hope, another wave yet to […]
The cover of Dispensation: Latter-day Fiction shows clocks on long poles dipped into a blue lake surrounded by mountains. At first glance, the image symbolically suggests that this is the last dispensation and that […]
Chucked my cell phone into the ocean in a move to be more alone. Was the Palm Pilot
Yesterday morning as I was sitting cross-legged at the kitchen table enjoying a bowl of corn flakes Jesus walked into our apartment. “Hello,” he said. “I’m Jesus. “I’m here to do the dishes.”
A bus token jingles against the nickels and dimes in the pocket of his Pendleton coat as he lingers at the door