The following excerpt from the Mormon Matters podcast episode, “The Atonement in Mormon Thought and Experience” (Episode 54), focuses on a presentation and discussion of the four main theories in Christian thought about how Christ’s Atonement “works.” What are the mechanisms by which humans are rescued from the consequences of sin? And is a Savior …
Category: Issue 165–December 2011
Golden: Poetry
By Paul Swenson Hey, Brother Golden, what’s it like over there? You ever share your coffee with the other cowboys ’round that celestial fire? Does it burn as fine and new as you hoped it would when you said you couldn’t wait ‘til you were dead to get the final clue— as to whether …
The Louisiana Heron: Poetry
By Dennis Ross shaggy dark grey in the predawn light, balances one-legged on the beach. Like a compass needle his long beak points into the brisk on-shore wind, towards the grey-blue waves now with brilliant orange dancers cavorting along their crests. A tidal pool mirror picks up the pulsing orange beat as the sun …
Moses Rock: Poetry
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The Motions: Poetry
By John Grey The whole of sunset resonates on the small of a lake’s frozen back. An odd design to this luminous third act: through stands of trees, for every street of light, ten blocks of shadow, an occasional kindling bough where a frigid leaf hangs on. Large egret no longer stalks cracks in …
Another Sky: Poetry
By James Cushing This scrap of bright blue paper with your hasty note and art keeps aloft the kite of a moment that has joined its sisters in the woods. Yes, despite lengthening days, the air feels cold and the wind speaks of something gone away I’m trying to read the 2-point type …
For Love of Words: Poetry
By Anita Tanner The teacher-cop with chalk directs traffic for sentence diagramming while we speed nouns and verbs between white lines to park in place on black asphalt, a few clauses or phrases second-storied up on tripod stilts we slash across the board, spots for words like stalled autos in a parking lot …
Letters to the Editor–Issue 165
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Update: Issue 165
“I’m a Mormon” Campaign Features Minorities, Gays, Rockers Say goodbye to Donny and Marie; say hello to Brandon, Valentin, and David, some of the new public faces of Mormonism. The “I’m a Mormon” TV and web campaign, running since August 2010, now includes a world-renowned rocker, a rainbow of racial minorities, and—in an unprecedented move—at …
Homosexual Spirituality and the Redemption of Pleasure: An Epistle of Paul to the Romans–Part I
By Paul Toscano I have come to believe that sexuality is a spiritual gift, be it heterosexuality or homosexuality. This belief is based in large measure on the explicit and implicit teachings of Jesus and the writings of his most influential and immediate evangelist, Paul of Tarsus. I assert this knowing that the conservative …