[…] best-known language of her flesh billowing one last time from her congregation choir, their notes astray and breaking and, yet, soaring beyond her organ, her awe, please, that her leaving might have been more […]
Listen the Out Loud version of this poem here. It was somewhere around here, I think.Where they buried that baby,yeah, the one I told you about.No, not by the pioneer obelisksa wife for each sidefresh…
[…] gathered data to gain insight into human inherited disease mechanisms, the implications of population genetics for the search for the lost tribes of Israel became more and more clear to me. A “tribe” is […]
[…] and M. H. Abrams, “The Revolution Controversy and the ‘Spirit of the Age,’” in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 10th ed. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018), 202. Thomas Paine, “Rights of […]
[…] got my first acceptance letters a few months later and was not just relieved but energized. The news felt good, and it felt right. Whatever I was to do with my future, the Spirit […]
[…] guided Dialogue during a critical period and co-led an innovative educational program at Deep Springs College. Her other ground- breaking work is seen in the completion of her forty-year vision of creating Zion Canyon Mesa, a […]
Of the legacy of Joseph Smith, historian Bernard DeVoto wrote in 1936, “The vision perishes; it is the vertigo that endures.” Reading the novel The Prophet’s Wife by Libbie Grant is to feel that same…
I desire to be to the Eternal Goodness what his own hand is to a man.—Theologica Germanica i. What the Right Hand Is Take my right hand—the index finger crookedfrom a long-forgotten break; the dintwhere…
Matthew Wickman presents the 81st Dialogue Gospel Study. Matthew Wickman is Professor of English and Founding Director (emeritus) of the BYU Humanities Center. He has written or edited three academic books and dozens of scholarly […]
Listen on Spotify. Listen on Apple. Em English details a few fraught moments of her lived experience in “Trans in the Chapel: Attending Church as a Newly Out Transgender Woman.”