[…] not boys. I wondered about that requirement until I looked around the chapel at our scanty, socially -distanced congregation and found not one young man among them. Maybe not a requirement, then. Just a […]
[…] Republic with a flippant “if . . . poetry can show any reason for her existence in a well -governed state, we would gladly admit her,” Western poets have largely been on the defensive, mounting countless […]
[…] in some ways establishes the contours of that Restoration. At least since the beginning of the twentieth century, the Mormon narrative of the Great Apostasy has incorporated the idea that Christianity went horribly wrong […]
[…] weren’t calming down. First up in the new century, Douglas Salmon, “Parallelomania and the Study of Latter -day Scripture: Confirmation, Coincidence, or the Collective Unconscious.” This remains an important article. This goes right to […]
Uncle Akumu has tattoos. Big, thick pe’a lines shout his ancient Samoan genealogy as they crisscross his thighs. On his arms he carries his own story. There’s Aunty Lani’s name surrounded by vines and pua…
[…] ourselves—even the most vain among us will be forced to recognize their “nothingness” when they come face -to–face with God. So there I stand, unable even to look at my Father in Heaven as […]
[…] Earth, Jesus Christ traveled to New Zion—a planet in the Kolob star system—and appeared to its six -eyed alien inhabitants, whom he named the Othersheep. He explained to the Othersheep that they had been […]
[…] to be stewards to the environment and have been saddened by the political reality that most Latter -day Saints easily dismiss these exhortations because of our faith’s attraction to the larger conservative movement in […]
[…] is a running theme or a coherent message that bubbles up through the macadam of its thirty -one distinctive essays. But I think I only suspect this, perhaps in part because of the recurrence […]
[…] But this is not the essay’s reputation. Ideals of ironclad arguments, footnoted discoveries, academese, and the red -inked, professorial careful!s have spoiled for numberless students the otherwise dignified practice of tinkering in the mind’s […]