The Playhouse
April 14, 2018I sit scrunched in a fetal position, my eyes tightly closed, savoring the womblike comfort of the playhouse. A spider is weaving its filmy home in one corner of the ceiling, and a fly has…
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Place and Identity in the Southwest | Robert S. McPherson, Sacred Land, Sacred View: Navajo Perceptions of the Four Corners Region
April 12, 2018Change is an inevitable though variable process in human societies and natural environments. Each generation perceives changes in their cultural universe, laments what is being lost, and wonders what will persist. They leave behind various…
The Fading Curse of Cain: Mormonism in South Africa
April 9, 2018Dialogue 27.4 (Winter 1994): 41–56
White South African Church members’s perspectives on racial issues in the context of Apartheid.
Blessing the Dog
April 6, 2018He waited, but the dog didn’t come. He went back into the house. His wife was strapping on her brassiere, skin spilling over where the strap was tight. “Seen the dog?” he said. “Haen’t my…
At Fifty-Nine
April 2, 2018I was reading the other evening from an old and friendly book by the late George Sheehan entitled Running and Being: The Total Experience, published in 1978 by Simon and Schuster of New York. This…
The Last Code Talker
March 31, 2018DZEH-NESH-CHEE-AH-NAH-TSIN-TLITI-TSAH-AS-ZIH. Elk-Nut-Eye-Match-Yucca. His grandfather used to say the bilagaanas always come in twos. The first time he was barely five years old, playing on a sand dune near their hogan west of Valley Store. He…
Good Literature for a Chosen People
March 31, 2018Very early in our history, we Mormons began to identify ourselves symbolically with ancient Israel as a chosen people. We too, we believed, were heirs to the covenant and blessings of Abraham because of God’s…
Scriptural Chastity Lessons: Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife; Corianton and the Harlot Isabel
March 31, 2018I’m going to risk starting with an impression I will not try to document but suspect many Mormons would share: that in the church, when we attempt to teach chastity to youth (say in Sunday…
from Falling Toward Heaven
March 29, 2018The next morning Allison dropped Howard at the Mormon church in Rockwood, which, except for the thin spire, was shaped like a large, sub urban house. Though he had asked, she refused to go inside…
Did Christ Pay for Our Sins?
March 29, 2018Amulek asks us a rhetorical question, “Now, if a man murdereth, be hold will our law, which is just, take the life of his brother?”(Alma 34:11). Obviously the answer is no, and Amulek says as much. We don’t think it is just to punish innocent people for crimes they did not commit. And we are right to think so. But Amulek concludes, “The law requireth the life of him who hath murdereth therefore there can be nothing short of an in finite atonement which will suffice for the sins of the world”(Alma 34:12).