By Michael Vinson If ye could be healed by merely casting about your eyes that ye might be healed, would ye not behold quickly? —Alma 33:21 I had been thinking about the idea of epiphany in psychology when I came across the Book of Mormon verse in which Alma uses …
Category: Issue 167
The Olive: Poetry
By Harlow Soderborg Clark This Tree is light to the world. The fruit of its fruit light to the mind Fire to the lamp, calm to troubled waters. The fruit bears its fruit by being crushed: Salt well in a stone box Add purgatives—vinegar is good Let sit. Crush between two grinding stones driven …
The Eleven Percent Solution
By Dana Haight Cattani Two years ago in the Midwestern college town where I live, religious leaders from several local congregations joined with civic and governmental partners to create an interfaith winter homeless shelter. Their goal was simple but ambitious: offer a warm and safe place for homeless individuals to sleep during the coldest …
Identifying and Working with Adolescent Borderlanders
By D. Jeff Burton Adolescents have occasionally been discussed in this column, usually as innocent bystanders as their parents enter the Borderlands. I’ve sometimes provided suggestions about how to protect them, shield them, guide them, and so forth. However, we haven’t discussed children or teens who become closet doubters or Borderlanders themselves.1 I have …
The Word of God: A Tale of Two Paradigms
By H. Parker Blount Or right-click to download the audio here: The Word of God: A Tale of Two Paradigms Both read the Bible day and night But thou read’st black where I read white. —William Blake My car in the shop to be serviced, I sat in a waiting room …
In Memoriam: Paul Swenson
By Stephen Carter From Medicare’s point of view, Paul Swenson’s 100-day recovery from the life-threatening infection he contracted in August 2011 was probably money ill spent since he passed away only a few months after his release from care. But for me, it was a great time. I knew where Paul was living, and …