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Yesterday the Wardhouse

When I was a girl our Wardhouse appeared in booklets showing architectural oddities of Salt Lake City. We were proud that it looked so little like a Church. It was squat and white with a…

The Ultimate Disgrace

After writing Family Kingdom, which was the story of my father and the great family of six wives and three dozen kids, I made a special effort to become acquainted with those of my brothers…

Mormons and Infidelity

In Masters’ and Johnson’s recent book Human Sexual Inadequacy, I ran across some startling information that made a whole group of other data collected accidentally and incidentally over a period of ten years suddenly coalesce…

Carrying Water on Both Shoulders

A thoughtful Latter-day Saint who grows up in his faith and takes it seriously may encounter difficulties as he immerses himself in secular education, particularly on the graduate level, and more particularly if he is…

Maturity For a New Era

This issue begins Dialogue’s sixth year of publication. It was, in fact, exactly six years ago that a group of us—some close friends, some mere acquaintances—committed ourselves to each other in a common venture, the…

Zion Building: Some Further Suggestions

I would like to respond to Gary Hansen’s excellent article “Wanted: Additional Outlets for Idealism” in the Autumn 1970 Dialogue. First, I must say that it serves as a very useful and welcome supplement to…

Another View of the New English Bible

Under an apparently cavalier assumption that form and substance do not go well together, Karl Keller has heaped undeserved praise on the New English Bible. In so doing, his mood seems similar to that of…

Dale L. Morgan (1914-1971)

A descendant of Orson Pratt, Dale L. Morgan was blessed with the same keen intellect and inquisitive mind as his illustrious ancestor. And although Dale had an early and abiding interest in the church of…

A Reply to Critics of the Mormon Neo-Orthodoxy Hypothesis

When Dialogue editors invited me to respond to Julian Durham’s and Gordon Thomasson’s critiques of my article on Mormon neo-orthodoxy, they indicated that I must reply immediately. Assuming the critiques would be published in the…