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On a late October afternoon, as I stood on my parents’ driveway in the pleasantly chilled autumn air, a tree applauded me. I was twenty-one years old. Just days before, I’d returned home from my mission, too ill to be of any use in that regard. It had been a doomed endeavor from the beginning, but I didn’t know that then. What I did know was that I was home, wearing jeans and no nametag, companionless, and relieved beyond measure for my honorable and very early release.

Fiction Editors’ Note: As fiction editors at Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, we’re excited to showcase two chapters from Sheldon Lawrence’s novel Heaven Will Find You. The novel follows a man who learns that…

Matthew Harris has provided the Mormon community with a gift: Second-Class Saints is a substantial work of scholarship based on enormous archival research and makes a compelling case concerning the Church of Jesus Christ of…

It was a pleasure to read and review recent poetry collections by Darlene Young, Elizabeth Cranford Garcia, and Maureen Clark. Each poet in her own voice and with her own hand dissects, examines, and elucidates…

Dear Editor, My compliments to you and Dialogue for the Fall 2024 Roundtable section, “Fifty Years Since Lester Bush, ‘Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine.’” My family and I appreciated relearning that history and evolution. We especially discussed…

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to take a seminar from a professor at my university in the Native American and Indigenous Studies Department, focused on religious and/or spiritual traditions, belief systems, and…

Birds, across cultures and time, hold a rich tapestry of symbolic meanings, entwining life and death, omens and auguries, angels and spiritual guides. They are often seen as carriers of the departed souls, and at times, they are believed to embody those spirits. Adam McLean, a Scottish writer on alchemical texts, notes, “The essential thing about birds is that they have as their domain the air element, mediating between the earthly realm and the heaven world.”

Orange dust blows into my eyes as I step out of the car onto the hot-enough-to-cook-an-egg sidewalk in the Diplomatic Quarter, or DQ as everyone calls it, of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. We are a few…

Within the Latter-day Saint cultural milieu, there are phrases frequently utilized during church meetings—from testimonies to talks to firesides—that are so ubiquitous that we should rightfully wonder if such statements actually deserve repeating. Irrefutably, these…