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June 2014

June 04, 2014

On Reading and Language (or, notes on what I have learned from literary theory)

There are at least two very important things that I learned from literary theory, especially...

May 2014

May 18, 2014

Nearing Fifty

I guess it must be the approaching milestone of turning fifty, but I am in...

May 04, 2014

Waiting on the Lord

The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh...

April 2014

April 04, 2014

The Blessings of Service: Lessons from Guatemala

Service opens the world to us. That, anyway, is what I have experienced in Guatemala...

March 2014

March 09, 2014

Anger, Forgiveness, and Community

I have been blogging here for two years, and throughout this time, I have...

February 2014

February 09, 2014

Agreeing to Disagree: Political Differences in a Community of Faith

Can people of faith be one even or especially if we aren’t in agreement on...

February 02, 2014

Mormons and Public Transportation

Recently an article in the Salt Lake Tribune raised the timely question, Is air pollution...

January 2014

January 23, 2014

Chile Journal #5: The Hope of Nature

Pablo Neruda once said that if you didn’t know southern Chile and the Chilean forest,...

January 20, 2014

Chile Journal #4: What Courage Looks Like

"Why were they imprisoned, your parents?" I asked my new friend, Tito, who was introduced...

January 13, 2014

Chile Journal #3: Serendipity and Second Chances

Twenty-six years ago, I was a student in a study abroad program in West Berlin....

January 10, 2014

Chile Journal #2

It has been an overwhelming week thus far, and it will be hard to summarize...

January 06, 2014

Chile Journal #1

I am currently on a research trip to Chile for a novel that I am...

December 2013

December 29, 2013

The Biggest LDS News of 2013

It has been an eventful year in the LDS community and in Utah. I think...

December 23, 2013

Giving

Let us suppose that the rich young man who came to Jesus to ask what...

December 10, 2013

Why Working For Conservation Is Good For Democracy

Today it was my immense honor to receive the Nature Conservancy of Utah's Conservation Partner of...

November 2013

November 28, 2013

Grateful To Be An “Unworthy Creature”

As usual at this time of year, I find myself reflecting on the blessings of...

November 24, 2013

The Poetry of Everyday

I remember my daughter, Camilla, all of six years old when we were on a...

November 10, 2013

The Quest for Great Mormon Literature

When I was in college, I had the privilege of listening to a reading by...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

On Science and Religion

The great artist Andy Goldsworthy in the documentary about his work, Rivers and Tides, is...

October 20, 2013

There Are Many Gifts

The requirements of gospel living are really very simple. Jesus taught us that it boils...

October 13, 2013

Fishing for Metaphors

Fishers are compulsive storytellers. Maybe it is because they have spent so many hours for...

October 06, 2013

Mental Illness and the Atonement

Inspired by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland’s masterful talk on mental illness, I have been reflecting...

September 2013

September 29, 2013

Bishops, Lay Clergy, and the Quest for Community

Several experiences lately have caused me to reflect on the nature of a lay clergy...

September 15, 2013

On Poetry and Politics, or Why We Can’t Seem to Stop Fighting

In honor of Seamus Heaney’s life so well lived, I revisited one of my favorite...

September 08, 2013

On Music and Community

Last night I had the unusual opportunity to hear James Taylor sing with the Mormon...

September 01, 2013

Science, Faith, and Policy

Living in Utah provides interesting up-close observations of tensions that are being worked out within...

August 2013

August 25, 2013

Reading Literature as a Religious Practice

A course devoted to reading the Book of Mormon as literature made headlines recently....

August 15, 2013

An Appeal To Those Concerned But Not Yet Alarmed By Climate Change

(This is cross-posted at ) According to a recent study done at Yale University only 13% of Americans...

August 11, 2013

A Mormon Sense of Place, as Seen by a Non-Mormon

Mark Twain was perhaps the first of outside visitors to Mormon Utah, arriving with pen...

August 04, 2013

Love and Losses

I recently had the unique opportunity to hear recordings made on cassette tape over thirty...