Although I was born and raised a Wasatch Front Latter-day Saint and was baptized early on in the sea of Mormon culture, I didn’t begin to test these deeply ethnic waters until Eugene England’s intellectual specter called me from the comfort of my newly christened craft to join him in the waves. It happened something [...]

The American religious experience has a long tradition of using scriptural metaphors and few were as adept at using these metaphors as Martin Luther King Jr. His speeches are awash in applications of scriptural language and events to the needs of his day. His people were chosen Israel being brought to the promised land. Stripped [...]

for Stephen Carter in partial fulfillment of a promise
but especially for greenfrog, who showed me a bit of backbone
When a subject and object look at one another, there is no subject and no object, there’s only relation, the scope of which extends beyond either creature’s ability to fully grasp it.  You can’t grasp it, but you [...]

News Release
BYU Experimental Theatre Club to premiere “Prometheus Unbound” July 31-Aug. 9
Written by award-winning playwright Mahonri Stewart
The Brigham Young University Experimental Theatre Club’s world premiere of “Prometheus Unbound” will begin Thursday, July 31, and run Friday and Saturday, Aug. 1-2, and Thursday through Saturday, Aug. 7-9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nelke Theater of [...]

In 2004 the Entrada Institute in Torrey, Utah offered a creative nonfiction workshop taught by Craig Childs, author of The Secret Knowledge of Water, etc.  Craig claimed to have never taught a workshop before.  Certainly, he took risks I’d never seen a workshop instructor take.