Fear, suffering, and a need for support are part of the experience of every person with cancer, but people are often uncomfortable with and shy away from these human emotions, which seem like admissions of…
It has been observed that “many who look to Sherlock Holmes as the supreme literary spokesman for rationalism feel dismay and bewilderment about his creator having become a leading champion of a doctrine that seems…
Dialogue 23.4 (Winter 1990): 83–96
This essay explores some of the strengths of deliberately choosing
to relate to our world with gender-inclusive language in three areas
On 27 July 1989, in the middle of the night, two people stopped their truck on our street, watched until they thought we were in bed, then ran across our front yard, threw a grenade-sized…
Dialogue 23.4 (Winter 1990): 47–82
In this essay, I will analyze recent Church discourse against a pattern of constricting employment options for women and will discuss the implications of that pattern.
One of the kids was sick, so his ex came over.
“How are you doing?” she said.
(That’s what she always said.)
The concept of grace and its relation to individual salvation is prob ably the most debated issue in the history of Christian thought. The list of combatants is virtually a Who’s Who in Christian thought:…
Richard Poll’s to the study of Mormon history is significant. As a scholar and teacher, he has influenced many for decades. In this collection of ten essays, he reflects on his personal experience as a…
Let’s roll back the clock a hundred years to a time when Catholics or Jews were more exotic to the American reading public than they are now. If I were an aspiring novelist, I could…
My friend Junie and I were Utah Mormons. We knew no blacks till we were teenagers. The summer I was sixteen and she eighteen, the Peace Corps hired Dad to train volunteers. It was then…