On Being Male and Melchizedek
April 14, 2018On 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…
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Mormon Women and the Right to Wage Work
April 14, 2018Dialogue 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.
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.)
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…