Volume 36, No. 2
Summer 2003
The Summer 2003 Issue highlights the significance of poetry within Mormon culture, with Robert Hughes opening the discussion on the importance of poetic expression in the community. Danielle Beazer Dubrasky contributes to this theme by reflecting on the legacy of Karl Sandberg, commemorating his contributions to Mormon poetry through pieces titled "In Memorium," "Shadow," and "Take My Hand." John M. Rector and Kirsten N. Rector pose a critical question regarding the challenges faced by LDS scholars and artists, exploring the dynamics between faith, creativity, and scholarship within the Latter-day Saint community. In the realm of scriptural studies, Cory D. Anderson examines Jude's use of the pseudepigraphal Book of 1 Enoch. And more!
Contents
Articles/Essays
Fiction
Driven
Nathan Keonaona ChaiFor my father-in-law, who knew the conflict Alvin Hawking awoke two hours after dusk. He slipped out of his cot and dressed in the dim yellow light that washed through the screen door at the…
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Saturday Evening, Sunday Afternoon
Helen Walker JonesAt thirty-eight I’m still single. Actually, let me be perfectly frank: Possibly Steve Young and I are the only people in the Western Hemisphere who have remained celibate until such an advanced age, and he…
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Brothers
Levi S. PetersonAbout a year and a half after Mitch fell, he decided on a comeback climb. Understandably, his wife was less than enthusiastic about it. Everyone agreed the fall should have killed Mitch or, worse, made…
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Now and at the Hour of Our Death
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonLuis strained his ears, watching bare jacaranda branches twitch in silhouette against the bedroom wall. The bedroom window was sliding up. It was not a dream. A human shadow was nearly indivisible from the web…
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From Three Jacks
Darrell SpencerSunrise, Friday, November, 22,1963, not yet but about to be one ugly day in U.S. history, and standing over there about to climb into the family Nova was my dad, Jack, the man suffering—in words…
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Wolves
Douglas ThayerWhen he was seventeen, David Thatcher Williams and his cousin Cleon, who was also seventeen, hopped a freight in the Provo yards to start a trip to Washington, D.C., to visit David’s Aunt Doris, his…
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A Good Sign
Robert Hodgson Van WagonerBobbie wants to marry me again. Fourteen months now I’ve been pointing out the kids, our wedding pictures, our marriage certificate. Gosh, I even show him the mail—”Mr. and Mrs. Robert Franklin,” right there on…
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Sanctuaries
Margaret Blair YoungIt’s been ten weeks since Liz (my mother) came to collect me from the islands and pack me back to Michigan. She wanted me to tally my losses and get on with things. Liz has…
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