[…] mapped out (revolver, late evening at the office), at first convincing me to remain alive for just one week, and then a second, and then yet another. Ultimately, I went back to the Lord, […]
[…] In Genesis, God, unlike Frankenstein, saw Man in the garden and recognized that it was not good —absolutely not good, the Hebrew tells us—for man to be alone. As merely an individual and merely […]
[…] a detailed account of how he did it. Additional details have continued to come forward. Since often I was the only other person “in the room,” I offer my reminiscences and reflections. Lester and […]
[…] past and suggests that all events are interconnected. Collectively, this creates a cohesive whole vision of Michelle. I suspect the story is supposed to act as a Urim and Thummim, meaning it beholds all […]
[…] these histories of displacement and dispossession. Todd Robert Petersen. Picnic in the Ruins. Berkeley, Calif.: Counterpoint Press, 2021. 336 pp. Paperback: $16.95. ISBN: 9781640093225. Note: The Dialogue Foundation provides the web format of this […]
[…] easier time reading the stories than she did; I saw the misogyny as satirized. Peterson’s main characters —mostly male, mostly rural Western, all ambivalently Mormon—range in age from fourteen (“Badge and Bryant”) to sixty-five […]
[…] the room, golden as plates. They don’t keep me awake. They never have. They also don’t say anything. The only sounds they make are indistinct whispers, strange susurrations. If they are messengers from God, […]
[…] I’d been trying unsuccessfully to sleep. It was definitely not the most comfortable bed I’d ever had —only a thin yellow and silver accordion-style pad separated my sleeping bag from the particleboard platform bunk. […]
[…] by Itself without Matter or Energy Around?” Gravity B Probe: Testing Einstein’s Universe (website), accessed Aug. 27, 2021. Brigham Young and other early Church leaders apparently believed in eternal polygamy: “You who wish that […]
<i>Dialogue 54.4 (Winter 2021): 1–33</i><br> Despite its alleged antiquity, jutting back centuries before the Common Era, and its predominant setting in the Americas, the Book of Mormon contains several Matthean and Lukan additions to […]