“A Matter of Love”: My Life with Dialogue
April 17, 2018God sometimes seems to me quite unreasonable. I’ve thought so especially at times when it appears that the one gift he has clearly given me, the gift of dialogue, is also a source of pain…
DiaBLOGue
Joseph and Son
April 17, 2018The shop smelled of wood’s death-scent
released, by the carpenter’s skill,
in the spring breeze: nature
spread across the afternoon
Dialogue’s Coming of Age
April 17, 2018DIALOGUE: A JOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT begins both its twentieth volume and its twenty-first year with the publication of this issue. Launched in 1966 as a daring and earnest effort to transform the serious conversation of…
Move Over, Fortune “500” | John Heinerman and Anson Shupe, The Mormon Corporate Empire
April 17, 2018When it comes to explaining economic matters, Americans have difficulty resisting conspiracy theories and are even more fascinated with their second cousin, the expose. Small wonder, then, that in a single week last July Fortune…
Polygamy Examined | Richard S. Van Wagoner, Mormon Polygamy: A History
April 17, 2018In his introduction to Mormon Polygamy: A History, Richard S. Van Wagoner correctly reminds us that even though “many Mormons are descendants of polygamists, most Church members are often no better informed on the critical…
Wild Sage
April 17, 2018I sit here by my gate, sniffing the stalk of sage in my hand, and wonder about the leaves drifting down on me. They float past my eyes and settle on my folded legs. Summer…
Meditations on the Heavens
April 17, 2018On the night of 16 November 1985, Halley’s Comet was said to be visible just to the right of the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades, in the eastern sky. That night, ten of us from the…
Sons
April 17, 2018New grain, you are comely;
Long, straight, supremely vernal.
Standing in Earth’s sun
Unashamed green,
You sway.
“No More Strangers and Foreigners”
April 17, 2018As I look back on more than sixty years in the Church, two changes stand out as being most significant: I have seen my church permit all worthy male members to hold the priesthood, and…
A Celebration of Sisterhood
April 17, 2018I recently completed a short season of speaking at Mormon women’s conferences, largely related to Relief Society. I do not do this as a professional speaker. I don’t sell books, and (at the moment) I…