Lectures on Death at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
April 2, 2018The ranger stoops to toss a stick away
and points to a narrow hole dug in the mud.
“Snakes,” she says, “are plentiful this year;
there’s some bubonic plague in rodents here.”
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Issues of Individual Freedoms | Linda Sillitoe, Friendly Fire: The ACLU in Utah
April 1, 2018At first, the title of this book seems a bit misleading and confusing. “Friendly fire” became popular during the Gulf War as a description of how American troops were killed by their comrades during desert…
Cosmos, Chaos, and Politics: Biblical Creation Patterns in Secular Contexts
April 1, 2018The conceptual link between the state and the cosmos has been explored many times by scholars over the last several decades. Mircea Eliade gave us his reflections in his book The Myth of the Eternal…
Defending Jose
April 1, 2018Samuel was watching the door intently when they let José in. He stood up, smiled as if he were greeting an old friend. He opened his body toward the inmate and reached out, completing the…
“Those Amazing Mormons”: The Media’s Construction of Latter-day Saints as a Model Minority
March 30, 2018The August 4, 1997, issue of Time featured on its cover a shot of the Angel Moroni atop the Salt Lake City Temple, illuminated against a night sky; the cover’s caption read “Mormons, Inc.: The…
Brother Melrose
March 30, 2018The old man walked out from under the line of high, heavy trees bordering the cemetery. He stopped. He looked up, blinking his eyes. He held his hands palms up to the fading April sunlight.…
Salt Lake Citations
March 29, 2018A friend writes: In a walking excursion last fall through the old block lying between Fifth and Sixth East, Seventh and Eight South—in a narrow alley behind Charon’s Mexican Bakery—I came across a shop of…
Analyzing LDS Growth in Guatemala: Report from a Barrio
March 29, 2018The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (usually called Mormon or LDS church) is having enormous success in most parts of the world. Growth is particularly impressive in Latin America. In 1971 there were only 217,500 LDS members on this continent, accounting for no more than seven percent of the church’s total membership.
Seers, Savants and Evolution: The Uncomfortable Interface
March 28, 2018Ever since his great synthesis, Darwin’s name has been a source of discomfort to the religious world. Too sweeping to be fully fathomed, too revolutionary to be easily accepted, but too well documented to be…
Out in the Shop: In Memory of Grandpa
March 28, 2018The sun shines a triangle through the hazed glass
of the shop door, spotlighting the eternal snow of dust
falling and collecting, as if by magnetic force,
on drill bits, saw blades, and boxes of nails.