Segullah Journal

2006 Heather Campbell Personal Essay Contest Winner WHAT DID I HAVE TO TEACH THEM? Before me, I counted nineteen faces: a new crop of BYU honors students. At the last place I taught a writing course, the students needed me. They needed me to show them how to craft thesis statements, to fix split infinitives, [...]

Spikenard lingers. While loaves and garlic and fruits, her perfumes, Float, too, Filling to walls, drawing souls For nourishment For warmth For flavor For artistry for inspiration For a moment shared with Him As she kneads and presses and peels Keeping an eye for their want she Hovers, too, Filling the jug, the heart With [...]

I dreamed of Oxford . . . (spires, a thousand spires, endless lectures, musty halls a solitary self in a Bodleian expanse A good life, my dear Wormwood. An orderly life.) then awakened to laundry and things to be wiped (countertops, noses, bottoms) How did this happen? And when, exactly? Time flows, it flows, it flows and [...]

MY KIDS AND I WERE VISITING MY MOM when the call came. Her ashen face rounded the corner while the phone attached to her ear periodically barked information. The barking stopped momentarily, and Mom turned to us. “I think you’d better sit down,” she croaked. “Louie is being life-flighted to University of Utah medical center.” Louie, [...]

Beverly Brough Campbell served for twelve years as director of International Affairs for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., she worked with ambassadors and other leaders in the nation’s capital and at the U.N. to open doors of understanding and access for the Church throughout the world. Brigham Young University [...]