Volume 13, No. 4

As I tried to figure out why on earth I was chosen for this talk, I could think mainly of reasons against it. First of all, I am a striking example of the failed artist.…

Some of Mormonism’s most important ideas appear to lie at the point of a paradox. The president of the Church, for example, is considered to be the divinely appointed mouthpiece of God, a prophet who…

President Spencer W. Kimball, in his address to the Samoa area conference in 1976, pointed out that he is frequently asked at press conferences about what he thinks is the single “greatest” problem facing the…

Two “common sense” theories of international relations have been with us from ancient times to the present: utopianism and realism. Both share a common belief that understanding man will help explain international relations, and power…

A few Saturdays ago, I stood in the duplication center at the University of Utah, photocopying a book-length manuscript with the cover title: “A Manuscript, by B. H. Roberts.” Halfway through the project, a dark-haired…

The church of my childhood 
was redbrick, too. 
Smug and warm inside, I’d 
watch the snow battling the windows 

Take, eat; this is my body. 

Like a deer he came to me, 
Parting the ferns, 
Like a deer with bright antlers. 
I chased him across meadows,

Let 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;