Author as Proxy

Latayne's shadow falling into a jail cell on Machaeus, site of the imprisonment of John the Baptist. Author as Proxy I was about thirteen years old when a bus took a dozen of my Mormon friends and me from our hometown in Albuquerque, New Mexico to Manti, Utah. There...

One Call. You.

You can make an enormous difference about Coronavirus with one phone call. You’ve been stocking up on non-perishable food, paper products, and disinfecting supplies? Good for you. Biblical. Wise. Look at this chart and read this article and see where your risk factor...

A Study of Angels

An Application of the Correspondence and Connective Theories of Truth By Michael Strawn and Latayne C. Scott           The subject of angel activity on earth is a “hot issue” both in theological and secular circles.            One common misconception held...

“The Birth” A Poem

The throbbings begin— The stretching, vague pain, Then panic and wonder are mixed Like gall and wine. I wait, with Mary, As eternity invades my heart And the two millennia between us Efface like the thinning tissues That frighten her young-girl body. She gasps,...

Lost Melody; A Christmas Poem

Now that the angels all have gone away The shepherds, too, with them Staffs no longer rattling on paving stones;  And those old fog-eyed men With sand in their beards,  They, too, have disappeared Like their auger bones Cast into the eastern horizon. And now...

Christ, Come Softly; A Christmas Poem

(acrostic poem) Christ, come softly: the uneven way Has been prepared. Though angels Rampant crowd the skies, each one In his own way praising Thee– Softly, Softly come. Through tribulation and joy, This night whispers hope. (In exultation, my heart's own voice...