Crows
April 11, 201819 JANUARY: Belgrade must be the smoggiest of all cities. If you look closely, you can see farmers through the haze plowing fields between runways. President told us in Vienna that if it ever does…
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One on the Aisle
April 11, 2018Paula had the aisle seat. Her younger brother Tony was in the middle, next to Sugar, and the two of them pressed against the window and each other and pointed at cloud formations. Down below…
On Spectral Evidence
April 11, 2018October 3, 1992, the first day of the 162d semiannual LDS general conference, was the 300th anniversary of the action that finally stopped the Salem witch trials. Those trials, perhaps the greatest blot on American religious devotion, had resulted in the deaths of twenty people, all of whom vigorously proclaimed their innocence to the end.
Memory and Familiarity | Thomas Edward Cheney, Voices from the Bottom of the Bowl: A Folk History of Teton Valley, Idaho, from 1823-1952
April 10, 2018This collection of reminiscences about life in a tiny southern Idaho com munity has such an authentic flavor of small-town Mormon country, a flavor which I did not experience first-hand but at a second-generation level…
“Come Ye Disconsolate”: Is There a Mercy Seat in Mormon Theology and Practice?
April 7, 2018At age sixty-eight I have lived long enough to know some of the sorrows of this life. More than once I have cried out with the Psalmist: “Out of the depths I cry unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice!”
An Episode from the Memoirs of Elder Thomas, A Somewhat Less than Good and Faithful Servant
April 3, 2018[Tuesday, November 19.] Brother Duvalier—the branch president—had us out to his farm for dinner tonight. Which is to say, he had us out to milk cows with his farmhand while his wife made us dinner. …
A Saint for All Seasons
April 2, 2018As Sterling McMurrin put it, “Every religion needs a saint, and Lowell Bennion is Mormonism’s saint.” Why does a church need a saint? People need a flesh and blood example, a person who has attained…
Jesus Christ in the New Testament: Part Two: Various Images of Jesus in the Books of the New Testament
April 2, 2018I. Introduction My previous essay on the historical Jesus in the winter 1997 issue began with the famous cry of Hebrews 13:8 (“Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever!”) and proceeded to focus on…
Tying Flowers into Knots
April 2, 2018Mirrors tell only the truth, or so they say. And tonight as I stare at my image in the glass, I think I look the same as always: for the past five years I’ve worn…
Madeline McQuown, Dale Morgan, and the Great Unfinished Brigham Young Biography
April 2, 2018Shortly after completing The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton in 1967, Fawn M. Brodie wrote to her friend Dale Morgan confessing that she had “been periodically haunted by the desire to do…