God’s Plenty
April 25, 2018The harvest poured til you could bear
No more, till you
Could neither know nor care.
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Zina’s Version
April 25, 2018Zina thought: Ha, what now? She peered through her front door window at the old man crossing Lizzy’s backyard. He was skinny as a bunch of sticks, splotchy, and wrinkled as a raisin. His hair…
Church and Politics at the IWY Conference
April 25, 2018Dialogue 11.1 (Spring 1978): 58–76
During the spring of 1977, Utah’s two major newspapers began their coverage of what was to become one of the hottest political controversies of the year: the Utah Women’s Conference authorized by the National Commission on the Observance of International Women’s Year and scheduled for June 24-25
Thomas F. O’Dea on the Mormons: Retrospect and Assessment
April 25, 2018I first encountered Thomas F. O’Dea through his book The Mormons which I read with considerable excitement. Here, it seemed to me, was a person professionally concerned with the development and enhancement of the scholarly…
The Eliza Enigma
April 25, 2018
Common Beginnings, Divergent Beliefs
April 25, 2018Dialogue 11.1 (Spring 1979): 19–31
Within two years of his assasination, however, the Church was torn by succession struggles that led to dispersion. Almost a century and a half later, the whereabouts of many of these saints is still unknown.
“Cooperating in Works of the Spirit”: Notes Toward a Higher Dialogue
April 25, 2018Communication is a matter of infinite hope. It is the emotion we feel when we send these fragile words however tentatively or forcefully out to others. Even those who write secret diaries, shrouded in cryptic codes, or who shout anonymous messages on subway walls, or who carefully hide parchment and golden plates in caves to come forth several millennia later all do so with the same expectation: that someone, somewhere will read and understand.
Ten Years with Dialogue: A Personal Anniversary
April 25, 2018We looked a lot like the picture in the Dialogue logo, although, of course, we didn’t know it then. Gene and Charlotte England, Karl Keller and I were taking lunch on the lawn at the…
Everything that Glitters | Ron Carlson, Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald
April 25, 2018Though set in Salt Lake City, Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald is not a “Mormon novel”, even in the way that Scowcroft’s The Ordeal of Dudley Dean is—which does not mean it will not interest Mormons.…
We Are What We Remember | Donald Marshall, Frost in the Orchard
April 25, 2018Wright Morris once said, “The ‘subject’ of Wolfe, Hemingway, and Faulkner, however various the backgrounds, however contrasting the styles, pushed to its extremity, is nostalgia.” He should have included Fitzgerald, and even then the list…