Winter Solstice
April 30, 2018 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
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The Comforter
April 30, 2018The 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
April 30, 2018Still 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.
On Second West In Cedar City, Utah: Canticle for the Virgin
April 30, 2018Ave Maria, plena gratia!
One street west, in the ward chapel,
I reinforce with paper thimble
of water and shard of bread
my bond to God:
Joseph Smith, An American Muhammad? An Essay On the Perils of Historical Analogy
April 30, 2018Dialogue 6.1 (Spring 1971): 46–58
Since around the time as the martyrdom, Joseph Smith has been compared to Muhammad who was the founder of Islam. Green and Goldrup presents evidence for how Islam and the church are different.
The Manifesto Was a Victory!
April 30, 2018Dialogue 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
April 30, 2018Dialogue 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
April 30, 2018Although 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…
A Continuing Dialogue
April 30, 2018Although it has been over five years since I received the first issue of Dialogue, I vividly remember the excitement with which I opened it and devoured it in one sitting. I suddenly felt a renewal of faith in myself and in my fellow saints. I discovered that there were Mormons who shared not only my concern for the life of the mind in the Church, but who also shared some of my deepest feelings about the life of the spirit in the world, who seemed unafraid to think, to explore, to question—and unembarrassed to fast, to pray, and to testify.