God’s Plenty
April 25, 2018The harvest poured til you could bear No more, till you Could neither know nor care.
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I am no monk, no flesh-thresher I,
April 25, 2018I am no monk, no flesh-thresher I, To winnow out, by dank silence, By hooded hunger and the raw, unflagging flail, That Adam’s chaff, desire, Till the husk of me lie powder on the stone.
The Deer
April 25, 2018There is little sound, only the gulls’ Sailing song, way off, and the gush On the grass more muted now and slow.
Jesus and the Prophets
April 24, 2018In his writings on the sociology of religion, Max Weber contrasts two types of religious leaders: emissary and exemplary prophets. The founders of the great religions of mankind fall into one of these two […]
Utah in One Volume | Richard D. Poll, Thomas G. Alexander, Eugene E. Campbell, and David E. Miller, eds., Utah’s History
April 23, 2018This recent publication is the best one volume history of Utah available, but it is not as good as it could or should be. The ideal volume would present a clear narrative, be integrated […]
Wedding Song
April 22, 2018Let the stone whisper to the flower, The flower to the sun, And the sun to the stars of heaven, That Jehovah is come for his bride;
Written in Church, December 23, 1979
April 22, 2018The church of my childhood was redbrick, too. Smug and warm inside, I’d watch the snow battling the windows
Dear Diary . . . | Elouise M. Bell, ed., Will I Ever Forget This Day? Excerpts from the Diaries of Carol Lynn Pearson
April 21, 2018[…] and a stint in a Kibbutz, where she manages to record the rhythm of a young woman’s search for identity. Though I would love to read the parts she and Elouise excised, I am […]
Our Best Official Theologian | Truman Madsen, Defender of the Faith: The B. H. Roberts Story
April 21, 2018With the exception of a handful of standouts, such as Donna Hill’s work on Joseph Smith, biographies by Mormons of Mormons have been scarcely worth the title. Often reminiscent of mimeographed Christmas letters, these […]
Local History, Well Done | Brigham D. Madsen, Corinne: The Gentile Capital of Utah
April 20, 2018[…] locked into fearsome competition for access to the Corinne trade. As was to be expected, the Deseret News and the Ogden Junction regularly derided these delusions of the Gentiles, but Corinnethians were confident that a […]