[…] The book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible also legitimizes the late Israelite cult. Along the way it attempts to answer several large questions and innumerable smaller ones. It is the story of the […]
[…] this guy A cherry, who wasn’t agreeing to get out today. Samuel checked his watch. It was 2:40 —2:40 on a Tuesday, he had just finished similar consultations with three other coke-heads, he then […]
The 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 […]
The 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.…
A 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 […]
[…] their daughters. So the townspeople reasoned: “Since Mor mons did not chaperone their daughters at youth activities —neither during the evening walk to the chapel, nor at the chapel, nor during the night walk […]
[…] addressed the question only perfunctorily. The same weakness exists in the vast majority of our published literature on the subject; the level of discussion, unfortunately, is far from sophisticated. Available works are usually the […]
The 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.
[…] furniture. We made our pilgrimage to the post office first thing in the morning and returned proudly —two American missionaries bearing letters from home through the shop-lined streets. Up the stairs behind the cosmetics […]
[…] possibility. Certainly many supporters resided there, and, as the eastern team began to wane, this seemed like an ideal time to make a home for Dialogue where so many might give it the nurturing […]