Illness in the Family
April 14, 2018One of the kids was sick, so his ex came over.
“How are you doing?” she said.
(That’s what she always said.)
DiaBLOGue
The Concept of Grace in Christian Thought
April 14, 2018The 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:…
A Reasonable Approach to History and Faith | Richard D. Poll, History and Faith: Reflections of a Mormon Historian
April 14, 2018Richard 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…
Just Dead | Robert Irvine, Baptism for the Dead
April 13, 2018Let’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…
Outsiders
April 13, 2018My 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…
“Proving” the Book of Mormon: Archaeology Vs. Faith
April 13, 2018Stan Larson’s article “The Odyssey of Thomas Stuart Ferguson” (DIALOGUE, Spring 1990) showed the world some of the backstage drama accompanying efforts of Book of Mormon enthusiasts to link the book with demonstrable reality. As…
Heartbreak Hill
April 13, 2018I go to Brenda’s wedding wearing
her ex-husband’s cast-off temple garments.
Sand Dollars Gracing a Shore Within Reach
April 13, 2018“Hey, Brian!” Dead leaned into my room. “Be ready to leave in about thirty minutes.” “Fine,” I replied, not worried that I hadn’t even begun to pack. I rummaged through my drawers and closet and…
The Next Weird Sister Builds a Dog Run
April 13, 2018With fortune’s damned
quarreling smile,
the neighbors complain
I Married a Mormon and Lived to Tell This Tale: East Meets West
April 13, 2018I have enthusiastically accepted the invitation to share my experiences as a “cultural Jew” married to a “cultural Mormon.” Kenneth and I have been married almost twenty-three years. I have lived in Salt Lake City since 1971 and before that for nine months when we were first married.