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Full-Text Articles in Religious Education
Breeze, Daniel Teichert
Breeze, Daniel Teichert
BYU Studies Quarterly
What if our prayers were the wind to God, and carried our thoughts like the smell of cut grass and barbecued meat and skunk musk and cow dung and tire-kicked dust?
The Grove, James Goldberg
The Grove, James Goldberg
BYU Studies Quarterly
When the Smiths put money down on that plot of land, it was all trees. Maples and beech, wild cherry and ironwood; ash, oak, hickory, elm. The boys must’ve measured their hours by axe-stroke some days as they put their shoulders to the slow, sweaty work of clearing land. To make room for wheat, rye, and oats, for buckwheat and beans they brought down maybe six thousand trees— those towering majesties—some saplings before Columbus laid eyes on their world’s distant shore.
Rock Of Promise, K. D. Taylor
Rock Of Promise, K. D. Taylor
BYU Studies Quarterly
When storms from thine opposer Entice our hearts to fear, O God, thou great disposer Of blessings, bid us hear
Learning To Touch, Marilyn Bushman-Carlton
Learning To Touch, Marilyn Bushman-Carlton
BYU Studies Quarterly
I was relieved when my daughter arrived at the dying, when she got to work saturating a hospital sponge, pressing it inside her grandmother’s cheek, allowing her to drink. I marveled
Our Lady Of The Unicorn Blanket-Cape, Tyler Chadwick
Our Lady Of The Unicorn Blanket-Cape, Tyler Chadwick
BYU Studies Quarterly
O, Mythical Daughter, Story-Seeker, Herald of Imagination and Reverie— May your frayed and faded mantle burden you with comfort and abundance— May it swaddle your dreams, nuzzling their shadows into pastures of promise and grace, boldness and prophecy—
Even Psalm, Darlene Young
Even Psalm, Darlene Young
BYU Studies Quarterly
Smog today, but I saw your wink in the pink light of the peaks above it, heard your chuckle in the plumes of trumpets and under-the-skin drums of the high school marching band practicing four blocks away.
Psalter For The Eternal Mother, Tyler Chadwick
Psalter For The Eternal Mother, Tyler Chadwick
BYU Studies Quarterly
O, Lady of Luminous Things, Vessel of Radiance and Wisdom, Let-There-Be and Bearing Witness—
The Rain On Alan Avenue, J. S. Absher
The Rain On Alan Avenue, J. S. Absher
BYU Studies Quarterly
How the Missionaries Came to Marion, Virginia, 1955
In that far year when I was a child (you were not yet), I saw how rain on long afternoons can chitter and chat, gurgling and chortling out the downspout, its sing-song tune boring a brat with nothing to do.