Resurrection Morning
November 13, 2024Listen to an interview about this piece here. Sometimes in the morning, I wake earlier than the others. I slip out of my room and sit down on that well-worn spot on the couch that…
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Gethsemane and Atonement Again
November 13, 2024In his 2022 Dialogue article “The Garden Atonement and the Mormon Cross Taboo,” Jeremy Christiansen adds to a fuller understanding of LDS reception history of the Lukan account of “Gethsemane,” namely Jesus’ agony and sweat/blood…
Brigham Young as Pastor: Compassion and Mercy During the Utah War, 1857–1858
November 13, 2024Will I run from the sheep? No. Will I forsake the flock? No. . . . I want you to understand that if I am your earthly shepherd you must follow me, or else we shall be…
“I Am Commanded to Stand and Testify Unto This People The Things Which Have Been Spoken By Our Fathers”: Lehi’s and Nephi’s Influence on Alma 5
November 13, 2024Dialogue 57.3 (Fall 2024): 39–80
In what follows, I will suggest that Alma 5, somewhat like Lehi’s dream, begins with an account of the forefathers (men and women) passing through a wilderness only to find a special tree and its fruit; I will demonstrate the allusive presence of the tree of life in Alma 5 and attempt to get at the language’s redemptive implications; and I will demonstrate the allusive presence of the great and spacious building (or its inhabitants) in Alma 5.
ROUNDTABLE: FIFTY YEARS SINCE LESTER BUSH,“MORMONISM’S NEGRO DOCTRINE”: An Appreciation
November 12, 2024Lester Bush’s 1973 Dialogue article is the focus here, as it brought much-needed clarity to the convoluted, deeply entrenched Mormon attitude toward race. We all know the story. Prior to June 1978 the Church of…
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