[…] the bonds of civilized behavior. It’s the crack in the veneer of respectability. It’s the exposure of human behavior. It says that the concept of humanity is primarily a lie. Before it happens, before […]
[…] of uneven quality that does not show, as the preface claims, “how from its beginnings in nineteenth -century Mormondom, poetry has come into its own as an art form in Latter–day Saint culture” (xvi). […]
[…] universal Word. No longer living water nor a protective garment, it has taken on so many worldly, human-created accretions that the essence of Christ is all but hidden. The height of the Church Office […]
[…] Francois is truly smart, and not mad, although his work can be scary. He has sounded the human heart. I see him making sentences in an unlit place, one small circle of light on […]
[…] that they have all the answers, and remain comfortable with my own tradition. All of us are human beings before we are anything else, and my experiences are not that different from a Mormon’s. […]
[…] to enter the Welsh immigrant’s bull pen, roll a smoke with free tobacco plugged on the nailed -down lid of a lard can, and listen to any number of detailed accounts of the history […]
[…] under stood by a quick trip through the editorial correspondence files, a sort of diary (or dia -log) of my term as editor. In that fragmentary record I grope for a synthesis that eludes […]
[…] why I continue to be an active, committed member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints. It seems to have become more important during periods when official actions of the Church […]
[…] translated) as a reward for exemplary faithfulness. For early Mormons, Elijah shouldered a burdensome mission: to oversee LDS temple rites and integrate the human family into an organic whole, sealing up personal relationships against death.
[…] thousand years. The eruptions and deluges of the Northwest plateaus are mighty brooms that sweep clean any human dust, but here she was, after all these years, my great find. The field work has […]