Letters to the Editor
July 29, 2024[…] representative of the diversity in my life, that I don’t know where it’s at for me yet, but only that I can’t break totally with the traditional influences on my life nor can I […]
[…] representative of the diversity in my life, that I don’t know where it’s at for me yet, but only that I can’t break totally with the traditional influences on my life nor can I […]
My first reaction to Mr. Christmas and Mr. Driggs was to hurry back to my essay to see if I had really said those things. I seemed to be hearing myself through a kind of…
A woman unhappily married to a polygamist. A girl trapped in Utah, separated from her father, likely soon to be sealed to a hoary elder. A gentile-accompanied flight to safety.
[…] westbound train climbing north out of Fra ser, Colorado, I wasn’t intending to come back. Not for her. Not for anybody. The soggy June fields between Tabernash and the pulp mills were literally hopping […]
Besides the songs, the one lesson I remember well from my Primary teachers is the one about the 4 R steps of repentance. That lesson has served me well over the years, even though I am still not very good at repenting.
Sonya has been sober almost a year —six months in treatment and six months on her own—and goes to AA meetings at noon or at 7:00 p.m. (sometimes both times) every day. She smokes […]
[…] to pay tribute to Lavina Fielding Anderson, who was my first introduction to a truly liberal Mormon —that rare breed of Latter-day Saints who believe that a fervent testimony and an objective study of […]
[…] I’m sure that some of them would like the histories to be honest. But obviously some want distorted history —distorted to order. O: Is it honest to control history? M: Certainly dishonest history isn’t […]
Among the benefits to reading authors with large, proven oeuvres is trust. We can trust Steven L. Peck. Remember that through the provocations of the opening of his astonishing new release from BCC Press, a…