This issue of Dialogue emphasizes the relationship between Mormonism and American culture. John Sorenson’s lead article on “Mormon World View and American Culture” sets the stage by attempting to make a distinction between the gospel…
My father and mother greeted me as the first of five daughters, eleven months and sixteen days after they were married. During the fifty five years of their being together, I have been home with…
Your letter caught me by surprise, not because your particular form of unhappiness and your objections to the Church are unique—and not only because I remember you as a person living in quite a different…
Life, Look and now Courage are gone but presumably not forgotten. Courage, for those of you not familiar with this periodical, was the RLDS counterpart to Dialogue which ceased publication in 1973 after three hopeful volumes. I bring this fact to the reader’s attention only to emphasize the tenuous existence faced by periodicals in this inflationary era. The problems are simple to describe but difficult to overcome.
Among historians of the West LeRoy Hafen is well known for his prodigious shelf of books—The Overland Mail, History of Colorado, Broken Hand, Fort Laramie, Western America, and two score more of documentary and reference…
In Dialogue’s maiden issue Rodello Hunter’s A House of Many Rooms was re viewed as one of those books “. . . by Mormons for non-Mormons,” a valid classification of the book. Mrs. Hunter’s A…
“It is still surprising,” state the editors of this volume, “how little good material is available in many areas of Mormon history.” To help correct this deficiency, F. Mark McKiernan of the Restoration Trails Foundation,…
Even before his death in 1938 at the age of eighty-five, J. Golden Kimball had become the most talked about of all Mormon churchmen. He was himself cognizant of his reputation, and when a nephew…
Ian G. Barbour’s book is a rarity in the area of science and religion, for the theme does not suffer at all, but benefits greatly from Barbour’s organization and presentation of problems. Barbour teaches modern physics, appears to be well versed in modern theology, and has a broad knowledge of history and philosophy.
This collection of essays is frankly polemical, asking indeed for “equal time” in the great debate which is now going on concerning the limits of growth, both in the human population and in its artifacts.…