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Winter Solstice

            The messages come early in the morning, 
by means of a dream 
(but young men have their visions), 
or struggle towards decision through a stream of indecisions, 
or real — or imagined — pain 

The Comforter

The argument holds: 
the love of God is lonely as time 
and the lines of the world are drawn precise and clean:
nothing transcends the dark but the dark. 

A Comforter

Still you come to me in the night 
Walking with bare feet whispering 
And still you force me to come round corners that could wait,
To face a minor premise I am avoiding. 

The Manifesto Was a Victory!

Dialogue 6.1 (Spring 1971): 37–45
Thomasson argues that because the church did not give in to the federal government regarding Renyolds v United States, even though it might not look like it, he believes the Manifesto was a victory.

A University’s Dilemma: B.Y.U. and Blacks

Dialogue 6.1 (Spring 1971): 31–36
Brian Walton, the BYU student body president in 1969-70 wrote this article to adress race issues head on. During BYU’s 1969-70 academic year, because of the church’s policy of denying blacks the priesthood and temple blessings, there were numerous protests at sporting events. In addition, several schools severed ties with BYU for a time.One of the ways that he was able to accomplish that was to bring in a fact finding mission from the Univeristy of Arizona to identify potential racism at BYU by interviewing students.

Tolstoy and Mormonism

Although Tolstoy is remembered today as a great novelist, short story writer and dramatist—the Russians consider him to be nearly as significant as Shakespeare in world literature—he would no doubt prefer to be re membered…