I discovered early in my scholastic career why a Mormon would never produce great literature. (A good Mormon, that is.) The reason was simple, expounded with eloquence and authority by my BYU “Intro duction to Poetry”…
Until recently, most Mormon writers have been pressed onto the defensive by the insistence with which anti-Mormons have exploited every hint that Joseph Smith, Jr.’s, family practiced folk magic. Consequently, the mounting evidence for the…
At night along the canals
Dad was best.
Beside narrow dusty tractor roads
Slow dark waters,
My late father-in-law, Anchor Luke Clegg, often told the following story at family gatherings: “My direct relative, and yours too, was the second convert in the British Isles. He would have been first, but he…
In the May 1986 Mormon History Association meetings, a panel of historians and archivists explored the impact of the Mark Hofmann documents on the LDS and RLDS churches and views of their common origin. Soon…
“Go get dressed. You’re no man for this army!”
I went, thanking for the first time the crook
In my spine that stopped me buck naked
From buck privacy, and took me back to you
I could justly praise DIALOGUE for many qualities . But for the sake of brevity I will concentrate upon a single overriding virtue. DIALOGUE makes my religion interesting. When I was a boy, I believed…
While I was on my mission in France, I received number 1, volume 1 of a publication I had never heard of before—a chunky little journal in a bright blue cover called DIALOGUE. It was…
Many of you will find it difficult to understand the enormous importance DIALOGUE had to my generation and to young Latter-day Saint readers at the time of its founding—those between the ages of twenty and…
In the Spring 1987 issue of DIALOGUE, the first of the twentieth-anniversary issues, I was referred to as “the founding editor of DIALOGUE.” That is not true. I was merely one of a group of…