[…] had surgeries and procedures (appendectomy, neuroma, ACL repair, lithotripsy, colonoscopy), with immense appreciation for the technology and human expertise that make my healing possible. My children were vaccinated, stitched, and otherwise cared for properly […]
[…] coherent single tale of Knaupp and Velluto and the fractured vision of Elwood combined into one actual human being—someone who lives one version of his life, yet that version is filled with both leaps […]
Listen the Out Loud version of this poem here. 1. a patient’s accountof medical history,a reiteration of conditionscontracted by mortality,a form of proud flesh’sgranulation over a wound,a raised tissue massdelineating impact to sayhere is pain,…
Podcast version of this piece. Embrace the first and forever night,Heartening as this Moon journeys from crestingTo full-figured, and in this ecstasy begins to fallEarthward, pulling me down to orchards heavyAnd underground, into mysteries of…
[…] & her earthy star. We each appear & hover above our swaddling, alive and silver— O blessed human Mothers—in tender kindness & hope for joy. Chime, you quiet bells. Open lapping mouths and let […]
[…] He felt very good about the proposal and will respond to his government’s invitation now. The proposed design was of one building with two separate functions: a meetinghouse on one side and an endowment […]
[…] marble statue the Christus. . . . Jesus Christ is standing under an arch.” This relatively brief description of the design was accompanied by a lengthier discussion of the LDS Church’s official intention for the symbol. Broadly […]
Dialogue 52.2 (Summer 2019): 59–84
Due to the fact that visiting with angels isn’t part of the normal human experience, it makes it hard for historians to prove that it happened through an academic investigation. […]
[…] strongest chiasm in the Book of Mormon, Alma 36 . . . appeared in this book by design and rules out the hypothesis that it appeared by chance.” Their “quantitative judgments regarding the intentionality […]
Dialogue 52.4 (Winter 2019): 85
Such inconsistencies may cause some readers to question the credibility of the text. Upon observing doctrinal andprophetic variation within the Book of Mormon, some dismiss the book’s divinity