After finishing graduate work in linguistics and education at BYU in 1976, I found professional work in the translation department of LDS Church headquarters in Salt Lake City. Even though I thought I already knew a lot about language from my study of...
The Examiner recently interviewed me with the following questions: Q-How did you get started writing?A-Writing begins, I think, with the art of noticing. One of my earliest memories is this:I am standing at the end of a peach orchard in Farmington, New Mexico, in...
This is a continuation of the study, “Ezekiel: Creation of a Man as a Symbol.”If you'd like to “catch up,” scroll down to where the study begins several weeks ago on the blog. Second Movement: the Recumbent Sin BearerIn this symbol, Ezekiel is...
Our study of Ezekiel draws to the end with this set of generalizations about the role of Ezekiel as a symbol. Tenth Symbol: The Quaking EaterAlso in chapter 12 is another symbol to demonstrate in the person of Ezekiel a further manifestation of the coming horrors....
The LDS Church announced recently the appointment of Joseph Sitati as the first black AFRICAN LDS general authority. Previously there was a black American who was a GA; and if LDS historical accounts are accurate, a previous black leader, Elijah Able, in the time of...
