Karen Marguerite Moloney

Singing in Harmony, Stitching in Time

Review: Morning Has Broken Robert A. Rees. Waiting for Morning

Gambit in the Throbs of a Ten-Year-Old Swamp: Confessions of a Dialogue Intern

How does an English graduate student who wants a visit to the East Coast, instruction in the American political system and an introduction into the Mormon publishing world satisfy these three ambitions in one two-month…

Roo Hunt

The magpies sang all morning long that May 
To lovers in the gum leaves where they lie. 
Half my heart is half a world away. 

Relinquishing

(25 November 1975—Los Angeles) 

Already cold, your quiet body lies, 
The ravage done, small protest to the sheet. 
Beyond your window through November skies, 
Sycamore leaves go drifting to the street.

Recollections from an Ex

mused in several voices 
to the tune of tinkling cymbals 

It wasn’t like she didn’t blend right in. 
In fact, based on the type of clothes she wore, 
People always figured she was from Salt Lake. 
Her skirts were long enough, that’s for sure.

Snowfall at Glenflesk

The hush that sheathes the road is sure and slow. 
My lights suspend a galaxy of flakes: 
The silence is as haunted as the snow. 

Life in Zion after Conversion: Hazed or Hailed?: Beached on the Wasatch Front: Probing the Us and Them Paradigm

In a chapter from her autobiography, Blackberry Winter, Margaret Mead describes the rejection she experienced during her freshman year at DePauw, a small midwestern college. Students had come to DePauw, in Mead’s words, “for fraternity…

Eternity Be Damned? The Impact of Interfaith Vows: Introductory Remarks

In any religion that stresses the importance of marriages between its members, choosing to marry someone of another faith is not a casual act. In fact, marrying outside the home faith is likely to incur…

I Married a Mormon and Lived to Tell This Tale: Introductory Remarks

Members of other religions, or persons with no religious affiliation, take on special challenges when they marry Latter-day Saints. In addition to the same problems any inter-faith marriage might encounter—conflicts over church attendance, child-rearing, value…

Song of the Old/Oldsongs: Only Morning in Her Shoes: Poems about Old Women edited by Leatrice Lifshitz

Day Dreams

Saints for All Seasons: Lavina Fielding Anderson and Bernard Shaw’s Joan of Arc

Wicks, Modems, and the Winds of War