[…] with aching joints. So why does that bottle still tempt me? I’ve seen the edge of the world. I’ve done enough searching! The only place I really wanted was home. Here not Heaven. Locale […]
[…] this poem in audio version here. Prelude Something is not right. A haunting quaver to the world. Your mind feels viscous, your body watery. The lights have dimmed. The sense of […]
[…] of ownership, patrimony, and repatriation (of both lands and artifacts) and of problems of authenticity in an American West under the ever-increasing pressures of industrial tourism, energy resource extraction, and debates about how best […]
[…] 2020, three significant new approaches to the Joseph Smith story have been undertaken in comics, each successfully breaking a path through the gnarled forest of known history. In short, Pillar of Light, written by […]
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[…] of more fully developed female characters and people of color would echo the diversity of the real world we live in—a world Peterson doesn’t seem to want to acknowledge. Levi S. Peterson. Losing a […]
For me, as a Native American member of the Church, I approach the hero worship of Columbus perhaps more critically and apprehensively than the average member would. I was taught that he was a […]
[…] John W. Welch, professor of law at Brigham Young University, reviewed the book negatively for the Church News (15 Dec. 1985); he published “B. H. Roberts: Seeker after Truth,” in the March 1986 Ensign; […]
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[…] By the time Dale returned, gowned and scrubbed, I was lost in my own body, in a world I had never known so well. The epidural block had not worked—it had seemed odd that […]