Dialogue 8.1 (Spring 1973): 62–72
Responding to Bush, Thomasson wrote in response to Lester Bush’s Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine: An Historical Review which that article caused him to reflect on what he believes and so it became to be very valuable for him personally.
Dialogue 8.1 (Spring 1973): 11–68
Lester Bush’s landmark article tells the most comprehensive history of the church’s teachings on race and priesthood, destabilizing the idea that it originated with Joseph Smith or had been consistently taught.
The British education system is organized in such a way that only 22% of each yearly batch of graduates are able to obtain a place in higher education (8% at Universities—the rest in Colleges of Education and Polytechnics). This means that higher education is effectively reserved for an elite compared to the wider intake of the U.S.A. and many other countries.
Dear Editors:
As a longtime Dialogue fan, I feel prompted to voice my expression of support for the continued publication of this vitally important and necessary journal.
I consider myself an active and devoted member of the Church. But like so many others these days, I have had my problems reconciling conscience with certain Church policies.
Many of the recent writings about society and its problems reveal heightened awareness concerning the impact of the future upon man. According to the “experts,” the steadily accelerating speed of change will be so great that man will become, and is perhaps now, a victim of something akin to culture shock.
The literature surveyed for this quarter’s bibliographical essay is from periodicals. Even the casual reader of this impressive list of recent works will notice that a high proportion of the reviewed literature concerns the “World Church.” From India to England, Tin Can Island to Finland, South Africa to Central America the Ensign and other journals report on the activities of the Church and present (albeit often superficially) introductions to the cultures of these lands.
There are beautiful pictures in this book. Some, like the take of Monte Alban at dawn, are works of art. The volume could make a valuable gift or an adequate addition to a photographical library.…
Here is yet another novel about the sensitive and soul-torn nineteenth century Mormon woman, another proclamation that if it took men to match our mountains, it was only because both had been long overmatched by…
These twelve essays are dedicated to the memory of the late B. West Belnap of Brigham Young University. Most of the writers have been or are associated with the College of Religious Instruction at Brigham…
At the time that Costa-Gavras’ new film, A State of Siege was cancelled at the American Film Institute’s inaugural festival at its new movie theater in Washington’s Kennedy Center, it was described as “rationalizing political…