Karl C. Sandberg

Scripture Lesson

Theology for a New Age | John A. T. Robinson, Honest to God

The Church of England, the heir of a nineteen hundred year Christian tradition, has fallen upon evil days. At least such is the assessment of The Reverend Nicholas Stacey, Rector of Woolwich, in a recent…

Silence

The sun is four hours high. The air is starting
            to stir from the south, heavy and dry with sun. 

Sabbath

No, nothing will do just now 
            but to sit beneath a mesquite tree 
            in a dry creek bed and look long at cactus. 
            The saguaro does not sway or bend or mark the breeze.
            It has no use. It simply is. 
            I can look at it until time is lost 
            and it will not move. 

The Rabbit Drive

Telling the Tales and Telling the Truth: Writing the History of Widtsoe

Thinking About the Word of God in the Twenty-First Century

The Soon-to-hibernate Bear Addresses His Public

Jacob and the Angel: Modern Readers and the Old Testament

Knowing Brother Joseph Again: The Book of Abraham, and Joseph Smith as Translator

Dialogue 22.4 (Winter 1989): 17 – 38
“The problem took another turn when Joseph Smith’s papyri, which had been missing and presumed lost for eighty to ninety years, resurfaced in 1967 and were examined and translated by Egyptologists. One fragment of papyrus was identified as the ostensible source of the Book of Abraham, but it bore no relationship to the Book of Abraham either in content or subject matter.”