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2014-01-10T18:46:13-07:00

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Chile Journal #2

Last updated on: January 10, 2014 at 6:46 pm By georgehandley

It has been an overwhelming week thus far, and it will be hard to summarize the extent of what I have learned and experienced. As I mentioned, I am here to research the context of the period of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet who governed Chile from 1973 until 1990. During this period, thousands of individuals were disappeared, executed, tortured, or forced into exile in order to silence political opposition from the left. At the conclusion of Pinochet’s rule, Chile... Read more

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2014-01-06T14:35:11-07:00

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Chile Journal #1

Last updated on: January 6, 2014 at 2:35 pm By georgehandley

I am currently on a research trip to Chile for a novel that I am writing. It is a story about a young LDS Chilean woman, an MFA student at BYU, who was raised in Utah but who in 2002 returns to her birthplace in Chile to seek the story of her missing father. It is also the story of an unlikely friendship between her and a wise and cranky and lonely older Utahn man who hires her to paint... Read more

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2013-12-29T13:04:17-07:00

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The Biggest LDS News of 2013

Last updated on: December 29, 2013 at 1:04 pm By georgehandley

It has been an eventful year in the LDS community and in Utah. I think it is healthy that we are engaged in a robust discussion about the definition of marriage. I have seen some promising signs that we are listening to one another with greater compassion. I like that the church has helped clarify our unequivocal opposition to racism and has helped to open the door for a more direct confrontation with our history. I would like to believe... Read more

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2013-12-23T09:06:33-07:00

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Giving

Last updated on: December 23, 2013 at 9:06 am By georgehandley

Let us suppose that the rich young man who came to Jesus to ask what more he could do to inherit the kingdom of God represents you. At first you might protest either because you do not think of yourself as rich, as young, or as sufficiently in charge of your own material possessions. Or perhaps you don’t see yourself reflected in his story because, unlike him, you have not always obeyed the commandments since your youth and you still... Read more

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2013-12-10T21:22:43-07:00

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Why Working For Conservation Is Good For Democracy

Last updated on: December 10, 2013 at 9:22 pm By georgehandley

Today it was my immense honor to receive the Nature Conservancy of Utah’s Conservation Partner of the Year award. I am posting here the remarks I gave at a meeting of the board held at the University of Utah. **** I admire the work of the Nature Conservancy as an effective model for environmental change. I know there are those who prefer a more combative approach not just by disposition but because they see the environmental crisis in perhaps more urgent... Read more

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2013-11-28T11:23:48-07:00

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Grateful To Be An “Unworthy Creature”

Last updated on: November 28, 2013 at 11:23 am By georgehandley

As usual at this time of year, I find myself reflecting on the blessings of life. I have already elaborated on them here, and not much has changed since last year. I still recognize how profoundly undeserving I am of the good fortune I have enjoyed in my life. I don’t know why, but it feels good to repeatedly say out loud what my blessings are but also to repeatedly say out loud that I haven’t earned any of them.... Read more

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2013-11-24T15:44:25-07:00

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The Poetry of Everyday

Last updated on: November 24, 2013 at 3:44 pm By georgehandley

I remember my daughter, Camilla, all of six years old when we were on a hike in southern Utah. She was a quiet and meditative child, one not prone to outbursts of excessive zeal, and she was squatted down at the edge of a stream bed in the dry sand. She scooped red sand repeatedly into her hand and let it sift slowly through her fingers. And then she said, with a maturity beyond her age, “I love the desert.”... Read more

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2013-11-10T21:53:37-07:00

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The Quest for Great Mormon Literature

Last updated on: November 10, 2013 at 9:53 pm By georgehandley

When I was in college, I had the privilege of listening to a reading by the great writer Wallace Stegner. He came to a student dorm and did a reading from his novel, Wolf Willow. In my family he was a revered name. He wrote some of the American West’s greatest novels, he understood Western history and the need for a stronger environmental ethic, and he wrote compassionately about Mormon history as someone who had spent part of his youth... Read more

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2014-12-30T11:07:03-07:00

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On Science and Religion

Last updated on: December 30, 2014 at 11:07 am By georgehandley

The great artist Andy Goldsworthy in the documentary about his work, Rivers and Tides, is seen gathering roots and twigs at the base of a tree in his home in Scotland. He stitches these small pieces of fibrous matter together to form a beautiful man-made web that hangs precariously from the branch of a tree. What this signifies to me is the power of the imagination to make order out of chaos, to bring objects, discrete “things” into relationship in... Read more

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2013-11-05T13:44:32-07:00

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There Are Many Gifts

Last updated on: November 5, 2013 at 1:44 pm By georgehandley

The requirements of gospel living are really very simple. Jesus taught us that it boils down to two things. The first is to love God with all our heart, mind, might and soul. God wants the affections of our hearts, the best of our mental energies, and the steadiness of our determined will. And then all he asks is that we extend this same love toward each other. He is not asking us to love selectively, like we do in... Read more

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