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Inscapehead Revisited, Emily Murry

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The photograph used in the bottom right portion of this image is by Callie Garett and was published by Inscape in 2014. Emily Murry is a part-time writer and a full-time mom living in the Charlotte, NC area. She met and married her husband while at BYU and loves all the cliches to their relationship because their hers. She unabashedly likes Shakespeare, Nora Ephron rom-coms, and farming sims. Emily graduated from BYU in 2016 with a Bachelor’s in English. She was a fiction editor for Inscape during her Fall 2015 and Winter 2016 semesters. Her professional background also includes editing …

Interview With Ally Condie, Tamra Pratt

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Ally Braithwaite Condie is the author of the # 1 New York Times bestselling Matched series and the Edgar Award Finalist Summerlost, among other novels, and of several picture books, including Here. A former English teacher, Ally resides outside of Salt Lake City with her family, including her four children. She has an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and is the founder and director of the nonprofit WriteOut Foundation.

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Inscape

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At Final Glance, Chanel Earl

Inscape

At first glance, I know that I know Amanda: young, white, with no signs of an abundance of either intelligence or stupidity. Her hiking boots and chipped nails tell one story, her piercings and her vague stare another. She answers questions with plainness. She walks with a sort of quick purposelessness and stares at her phone a lot.

Stroganoff, Ann Dee Ellis

Inscape

I say, No thank you. She says, Too bad. She spoons on the noodles and then the sauce. She spoons on mushrooms and onions. She spoons on beef. Mom, I say.

The Ache That Blankets The World, Kristen Hogan

Inscape

And it came to him then that it should never be taken lightly, the essential loneliness of people, that the choices they made to keep themselves from that gaping darkness were choices that required respect. —Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again

It’s Thanksgiving Day in the 1980s. At ten or eleven, I’m skinny, long limbed, and hovering in the space between the deserted dining room table and my uncle’s glass-doored gun cabinet, hoping to sneak another slice of banana cream pie. Instead, I overhear my grandma and my aunt arguing in the tired kitchen behind the yellowing Formica countertop.

Song Of A Starving Mother, Shayla Frandsen

Inscape

“Please eat,” my husband will beg me. “Can I make you a sandwich?” I wish it were as simple as a sandwich. Nobody wishes more than me. I look at him and say, “I can’t.” I say, “Not right now.”

A Backpack In The River, Shamae Budd

Inscape

That morning, we awoke to the silence of snow—the first snowfall that winter, like white gauze, an inch thick on the cars and lawn and pavement, exhilaratingly blank after the red and yellow color-chaos of autumn. I looked out the window and pulled my winter boots from the closet, tugging my husband to join me for a walk before breakfast. Two months married, we bundled ourselves into knitted hats and scarves and gloves and made our way to the river trail, listening to the muffled sound of our feet leaving prints in the snow.

Creeping Things, Shamae Budd

Inscape

I lay in bed a few weeks ago, admiring the flatness of my stomach, grieving in advance the lack-of-flatness I can expect when my husband and I decide to start growing children of our own, and I found myself wondering, strangely, how snakes are born. Do they hatch from eggs, or are they born live and wriggling?

Imperfect Instruments, E.B. Wheeler

Inscape

“This is going to be your only helicopter ride. Too bad you can’t look out the window.” I didn’t understand why the guy thought I’d never go on another helicopter. Of course, I also wasn’t sure why I was on this one. My head was strapped to a backboard, and I had a hazy memory of trying to unbuckle my seatbelt and not being able to move my arm. Of firemen peeling the top of my car open like a tin can. Otherwise, the day was black.

God Is A Poet, Matthew Wickman

Inscape

Why do we need literature? Certainly, there is much to admire in thoughtful, beautifully crafted narratives, poems, and plays, in gripping stories, layered characters, and poignant turns of phrase. But need is more intense than admiration, more desperate than mere affection. A graduate school friend and Church member once remarked to me, astutely, that if one surveys all the world’s civilizations over the course of known history, one can find plenty of examples of societies that had no concept of private property or insurance industries or professional sports teams or universities or lawyers or finance capitalists or plastic surgeons (and …

Quail Egg, Lance Larsen

Inscape

While watering, I found it under the Ponderosa pine, a stray egg, already cold, dropped by a stray hen in a hurry for better cover.

Wrinkled Tablecloths, Cheryl Seely Savage

Inscape

It was wrinkled The dining room tablecloth was wrinkled And my grandmother’s memory told me To iron it before I lost my respect

To The Men Who Tailor Their Trousers, But Especially To The Ones Who Didn't, Emily Murry

Inscape

I know I should be texting you right now I’m off from work and heading to the train I always text you right now To let you know that I missed you today

The Art Of Marriage, Meg Mcmanama

Inscape

after the museum we fought. the Adam and Eve tumbleweeding to life didn’t please you, nor did the wall-size sketch of refugees with pearls on their neck, sailing into the storm but look, I said, how those women being swallowed by the wave aren’t quite flesh or water, but you had already moved on. walking outside, you said you didn’t like any of it.

Eve: A Self-Portrait, Meg Mcmanama

Inscape

On my back, I wring my fingers up through the chicory, and pray the sun pirouettes a little longer on my skin.

The Widow Interim, Kath Richards

Inscape

A metronome outside his skin, like he wears on his person the grandfather clock from his grandfather’s home. Between his lungs, the dacron droning of muscle pumping the piece of poly-carbon which will play valve so long as his heart will have it.

Fallow, Rachel Hunt

Inscape

The Mother said, Even the fields have years that they don’t produce. Lie still, uptake nutrients and sun, and rest. Are you more than the sugarcane and rice?

What Hoping For A Sign Might Feel Like, Isaac Richards

Inscape

Along a red brick path, along an artificial stream, (water turned off, mossy rocks vulnerable to icy air) somewhere along the month of February, I walk.

Cancer Questions For My Father, Jennifer Halversen

Inscape

Should we move the area rugs, put in shower rails, get the panic button necklace as seen on TV? Should we build a ramp?

Menu, Jim Richards

Inscape

He wonders if she wants him to order for her. She wonders if he has noticed her nails, and if so, why he has not said anything.

Proper Names And Political Claims: Semitic Echoes As Foundations For Claims To The Nephite Throne, Lyle H. Hamblin

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

The Book of Mormon contains examples of phonemes in character names that resemble Semitic root words. The possible meanings of the names and their timing in the Book of Mormon narrative provide a deeper level of context to the Nephite political challenges in the books of Mosiah through 3 Nephi. Specifically, the English phonemes for the Hebrew and Arabic root- word for “king,” M-L-K, appear in character names in the Book of Mormon narrative when the people of Zarahemla, who were descended from Mulek, the last king of Judah, are discovered by the Nephites in the book of Omni. “King” …

The Literary Structure Of Alma 17–20: A 14-Unit Chiasm, Derek Squire

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

This article is an analysis of the literary structure of Alma 17–20. These four chapters in the current Book of Mormon were originally a single chapter in the first edition of the Book of Mormon (originally, chapter 12). The current article describes a process and rationale that was used to identify several major literary units whose structure is no longer obvious with the division into four chapters. The original literary structure appears to have been written as a 14-part chiasm in which the matching units share many strong links and parallels. According to this analysis, the central units of this …

“This Stone Shall Become The Great, And The Last, And The Only Sure Foundation”: A Nephite Poetics Of Dramatic Fusion And Transfer In Jacob 5, Matthew Scott Stenson

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

In this study, three intersecting images are traced through the small plates until Jacob 5, where they directly (or by implication) culminate in the final section of Zenos’s allegory. The three images appear fused together in Nephi’s and Jacob’s writings. Specifically, this literary study tracks the images of the olive vineyard, the sheepfold and pasture, and the cornerstone or rock foundation. These oddly fused (or adjacent) images, though complexly employed, can be understood best as representing not only Christ but a gospel-centered record to be revealed by him. Fundamental to this reading is the idea that the Good Shepherd gathers …

Barbara (And Kenneth), Lauren Laws, John C. Leavitt

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Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

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Learning From Spiritual And Secular Sources Orchestrating Inspired Discussions While Teaching In The Savior’S Way, Damon L. Bahr

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

One of the important topics of Teaching in the Savior’s Way is orchestrating gospel discussions. As teachers, leading a successful discussion is critical to helping class members “Hear Him.” This article begins by talking about two of President Nelson’s talks that describe how to integrate learning from spiritual and secular sources and show that what is learned from secular sources can inform learning from spiritual ones. Spiritual guidance for orchestrating discussions is provided, which is then augmented by some secular guidance from educational research about orchestrating classroom discussions.

Walk With Me Towards A Christ-Inspired Shepherd-Leader Apprenticeship Model Of Leadership Development, J. Gordon Daines Iii, David L. Rockwood

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

This paper reviews the literature on leadership development that focuses on Jesus Christ, then introduces a Shepherd-Leader Apprenticeship (SLA) model of leadership development. The SLA model describes how Jesus Christ develops leaders. It builds on previous scholars’ work on Christ’s leadership development approach and adds the concept of situated cognition and iterative (as opposed to linear) steps. The scriptures show how Christ used this model to develop the leadership skills of his disciples who served in a variety of capacities and roles. Christ used the SLA model with a variety of individuals who felt varying degrees of comfort with their …

Rahab And The Perpetuation Of Deliverance, Amy H. Fisher

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

Deliverance is clearly the major theme of the memorable Exodus story, but the Exodus is not the only Old Testament account that teaches profound lessons about God’s redemption. The story of Rahab—the woman of Jericho—is situated in relation to the Exodus through shared images and narrative elements to highlight additional insights about God’s power to save. Specifically, the Rahab story shows that God continues in the temporal, collective delivery of his covenant people even after Egypt. God is also interested in both the temporal and spiritual deliverance of individuals, as shown in the life of Rahab herself. Finally, the story …

It Helps To Have A Village, Daniel C. Peterson

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

In preparing the next generation, it really is helpful when parents don’t stand alone and they have the help of others outside the family. This is one of the reasons why the seemingly growing gulf between gospel values and the values of the societies around us is such a cause for concern: “The truths and values we embrace are mocked on ev’ry hand.”1 All of us have benefited from innumerable influences—from teachers in and out of the Church, from writers, from youth leaders, from coaches, from role models of all kinds. We may even have forgotten many of those influences, …