BUC: A Boy among the Saints spans a “year in the life of an unregenerate 10 year old”—the endearing young rascal Wilford Bushman. Wilf, like most in his rural Utah community of Anti-Nephi-Lehi, is […]
Podcast version of this piece. My devotion never translates to my fingers. There is something lost. The scaly chaff of my heart opens my lungs. I pinch my pic like a quill what can […]
[…] to darken the dark grays, lighten the light grays, to try to see the black and white world of my bishop. I remember the morning Beth left her garden to calm Richard raging, and […]
[…] over the garish blue sea spanning the room. She listened for some sign in this last devotional— world without end—but could suddenly hear nothing. It was a horsehair worm, nightmarishly fine and black as […]
Like a mother opening her arms to embrace her children, the span of mountains and trees that look over my childhood home in Salt Lake City extend to the south and cradle also the […]
[…] in priesthood might. We were children when we heard decapitation was the only course to save the world. Just kids when Haun’s Mill came out on VHS. I stayed up every night after my […]
I suppose only the animals that paired off and shuffled up the ramp survived the flood. So this Bishop, pointing out that we would rather flirt than marry—well, he built an Ark out of […]
[…] to talk about her book, Eugene England: A Mormon Liberal. Kristine is a writer, editor, and independent scholar, and the former editor of Dialogue. England championed an optimistic Mormon faith open to liberalizing ideas from American culture. At […]
[…] he’d write and tell stories, draw his own comic books, and force his younger brothers to act in his extremely low-budget films. As a teenager and aspiring musician, he explored his love of story […]
[…] Modern Mormonism. Eugene England was one of the primary founders of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought in 1966, an English professor at Brigham Young University, and one of the leading intellectuals in the Church of Jesus […]