My Ghosts
April 13, 2018[…] Vietnam. On a dewy summer morning in 1969, I returned from a game of tennis to the news that J.B. had been hit in the head by flying shrapnel. At first, the injury had […]
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Is There Such a Thing as a “Moral War”?
April 13, 2018[…] Grenada, Panama, Nicaragua, and Kuwait) have “leavened” Canadian attitudes in general. Church members often react to war news with a kind of “millenialist anticipation,” an almost backhanded joy arising from the belief that we […]
Pancha Loca
April 12, 2018[…] was something else out there, a better way to live. Only by braving their father’s wrath, by breaking with Catholicism and joining the Mormons and enduring his total, albeit temporary, rejection, had they been […]
Ecclesiastical Implications of Grace
April 12, 2018[…] leadership presuppose respect and recognition for spiritual, if not professional, achievement. Names are published in the Church News in the “New Mission Presidents, New Regional Representatives, New Stake Presidents” sections, along with past positions in […]
Comments on the Theological and Philosophical Foundations of Christianity
April 12, 2018Historical Christianity is a remarkable composite of diverse religious cultures, a mixture that even today, after two millennia, is still mixing, blending things that often will not blend and fusing the unfusible. Sometimes severe, chaste,…
One on the Aisle
April 11, 2018Paula had the aisle seat. Her younger brother Tony was in the middle, next to Sugar, and the two of them pressed against the window and each other and pointed at cloud formations. Down below…
Liberal Spirituality: A Personal Odyssey
April 11, 2018[…] graduate student might. But it shouldn’t. Joining the Mormon church was a natural outgrowth of a youthful search for truth, a college roommate, Richard Haynie, whose Mormon home had been much like my own, […]
Gifts of the Spirit
April 10, 2018[…] Sacramento—we are.” Brother Rice nods with that solemn resignation of one who has received tragic but inevitable news. “Well, I’m sorry to hear that.” Then as an afterthought, “We’ll really miss you.” He smiles […]
Lost on Both Sides
April 10, 2018I suppose we all share the same space at one time or another. One can search out these spaces, as I have. Outside Paris I spent an afternoon mulling about in Malmaison, Napoleon and […]
Toward a Feminist Interpretation of Latter-day Scripture
April 10, 2018[…] Seagull Book & Tape. For more information, see my “Delighting in Plainness: Issues Surrounding a Simple Modern English Book of Mormon,” Sunstone 16 (Mar. 1992): 20-29.1 have not received and will not receive any […]