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…
DiaBLOGue
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.
I Married a Mormon and Lived to Tell This Tale: Through a Stained-Glass Window
April 13, 2018Let me start by saying that I did not pick the title for this panel —I am not yet convinced that I have survived the experience intact. How ever, after more than fifteen years of…
I Married a Mormon and Lived to Tell This Tale: “To Celebrate the Marriage Feast Which Has No End”
April 13, 2018Friends often ask me what it is like to be an active Lutheran layperson married to an active Latter-day Saint. I think I can best describe my marriage experience by addressing my comments to my…
I Married a Mormon and Lived to Tell This Tale: Introductory Remarks
April 13, 2018Members of other religions, or persons with no religious affiliation, take on special challenges when they marry Latter-day Saints. In addition to the same problems any inter-faith marriage might encounter—conflicts over church attendance, child-rearing, value…