[…] task of healing were inspiring and a monument to the triumph of the human spirit. In a world where violence is omnipresent, it is refreshing to come in contact with those who seek no […]
All night, all day, angels watching over me, my Lord. And him slipping off, letting the door close
No funeral today, but the town has business at its cemetery. Dust leads the procession; handles of rakes and hoes protrude
[…] I cut my palm open trying to be your blood brother. We slid a fresh blade into the utility knife to keep things clean. The edge skated deeper than my skin. You pulled it […]
More than twenty-four years ago, Leonard Arrington asked some fifty prominent Mormons to identify the most important intellectuals in Mormon history. He published his findings in the spring 1969 issue of Dialogue: A Journal […]
Have you noticed, then, that sound moves differently in fall—such falling of leaves, a fall from warmth and
Best thing that ever happened In church was when Martha Got Nancy to sing “Summertime” On Mother’s Day—
In Saint George, Lena McCain had cancer. She set her house in order. In Las Vegas, the doctors went after the cancer with a knife, got it, watched her closely.
Through Perean hills and Arabian desert, pacing our journey by the pulsing star, we come here, finally, to this quiet shelter that houses the holy—to Bayt al-Lahm.
What holds us together is our discourse— hints and asides, a whisper in the cloakroom, School of the Prophets held across the backyard hedge. Stealth gives Adam-God a reviving breath, let Gog and Magog […]