Did you know that James Brighouse has been, among others, Adam, Enoch, Michael, George Washington, and Joseph Smith? Did you know that Max E. Powers was in attendance at the grand council in heaven before…
[…] but my brother’s to soothe with tummy tickles and Gerber biscuits, no sex. Being a student in English lit by day and a waitress by night has its freedoms and exhilarations but sometimes wanting […]
[…] backwards. An assembly of teenagers and I then listened to them repeatedly and could discern nothing except English recorded backwards, including the reverse of “another” sounding with some imagination like the last two syllables […]
[…] in intimacy seems confused and mixed. Brown rele gates the body to a bottom rung in the search for intimacy, an inferior member of the mind/spirit/body triumvirate: “In hu man relationships, the heart and […]
In the last days of summer
we walk through tall grass
to the river
long before the sun spills
[…] down for lack of funding, 12,000 people turned out for a hastily organized protest rally. The local newspaper, the Tri-City Herald, often runs pro-nuclear editorials. Sometimes when I read stories about leaks in Hanford’s […]
[…] the text. There were, to be sure, scholars who studied the biblical text as literature, like the English scholar R. G. Moulton at the end of the nineteenth century and the American Nils Lund […]
[…] the life of the child and of the mature citizen. In his classic essay, “Politics and the English Language,” Orwell condemned foggy language—the dying metaphors, pretentious diction, and meaningless terms used today in the […]
I’ve found it useful at times to think of Christ as an intellectual in the ser vice of the faith. I find that he assumes and champions the ability of persons to examine and revise…
This study seeks to look analytically at the reorganization of sex roles and sexual expression in three of the most controversial religious movements of nineteenth-century America—the Shakers, who practiced celibacy; the Mormons, who introduced a…