The Postum Table
March 14, 2018[…] husband. Gush sat looking at his wife. Finally, she sighed. Gush stood, then walked over to the black, wrought-iron railing that guarded the stairwell and leaned over it so far that the arch of […]
[…] husband. Gush sat looking at his wife. Finally, she sighed. Gush stood, then walked over to the black, wrought-iron railing that guarded the stairwell and leaned over it so far that the arch of […]
Jarring bang. Wheels leap up, rattling the heavy load of black piping destined for the oilrig. The truck rolls on. Oblivious to what it left behind. On the macadam, a coyote. From its sacrum […]
[…] Church and enter the barren yard, where I am soon greeted by forty faces, some white, most black. I am assigned to work with three-year-olds. Ronnie, one of these, wears his coat and hat […]
[…] 1970 an estimated 10,000,000 farmers will have moved to the city. The majority of these migrants—white and black—are the poor, the underprivileged, the undereducated. . . . In the urban ghetto, migrants slowly begin to […]
[…] the Mormon literary scene, where people are judged almost entirely by the color of their hats—white or black, for or against (no shades of gray). The most fatuous, superficial, warped, and dishonest out pouring […]
[…] never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black west went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs— Because the Holy Ghost over the […]
[…] because there was always the possibility that President David O. McKay would drive up in his big, black Buick to visit his grandson. The first time he came we were caught passing the football […]
[…] for much of its history. Despite pivotal moments like the 1978 reversal on the priesthood ban for Black members and recent calls from Church leaders to abandon prejudicial attitudes, systemic racism remains one of […]
[…] is undoubtedly something lost in this defining of moral aspirations downward and casting off Christian ascetic practices dating back to John the Baptist. Yet, how does one recover an element of these “higher” forms […]