From at least the seventeenth century and perhaps from as early as the writings of the pre-Socratics, Western thought has been plagued with a radical dualism which has severed one area of activity and experience…
When the church orator poses his rhetorical question, “Who’s on the Lord’s side, who?”, no one thinks to suggest Sigmund Freud. Most Mormons associate Freud with lustful sexuality, primitive drives and (somehow) biological evolution. Psychoanalysis,…
I will tell you now that words come hard for me. Perhaps that is why I value them so highly. And I make no apology for being simple where most men are complex and complex where many men are simple.
Dr. Mortensen’s book is readable; it has a flowing style and is brief. The author is entertaining, effectively using case vignettes to illustrate his points. Perhaps because of the brevity and ease of reading I…
Robert Hinckley is clearly one of Utah’s most distinguished sons. In a career spanning over a half century, both in Utah and on the national level, he has worn a number of different hats—politician, government…
Kate and Mary Ann Hamilton, mother and daughter, are nineteenth-century Mormon women whose romantic dreams are serially shattered during the forty years spanned in this novel, a story, hopes its author, that “has something to…
What interest can two books about an outlaw have for Dialogue readers? An obvious answer is that Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy, was a Mormon boy who went bad, but another is that these…
The States and the Nation Series is a set of histories of each state and the District of Columbia “designed to assist the American people in a serious look at the ideals they have espoused…
Today there are more than 1,700 daily newspapers in the United States, many of which have circulations of several hundred thousand. Yet once a particular day’s news is superseded by the next, what remains is…
Morning
My father’s body sounds,
those noises keeping him alive,
I hold dear and dumb, my own:
his son’s heart pounds