Gifts of the Spirit
April 10, 2018Brother Rice, the first counselor, says the bishop thinks the young people might be more responsive to someone who, oh, speaks a little more their language. Then he smiles, hands me the Sunday school manual,…
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B.H. Roberts’s Autobiography
April 10, 2018
The B.H. Roberts Papers at the University of Utah
April 10, 2018In the spring 1969 issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought appeared Leonard Arrington’s article, ‘The Intellectual Traditions of the Latter-day Saints,” based partly on a questionnaire he had sent to “50 prominent LDS…
Intellectuals in Mormon History: An Update
April 10, 2018More than twenty-four years ago, Leonard Arrington asked some fifty prominent Mormons to identify the most important intellectuals in Mormon history. He published his findings in the spring 1969 issue of Dialogue: A Journal of…
The Man Without Sin
April 10, 2018There’s this house where
four retarded men live who
go to church on Sundays.
Apologetic and Critical Assumptions About Book of Mormon Historicity
April 10, 2018Dialogue 26.3 (Summer 1995):163–180
FOR TRADITION-MINDED MEMBERS of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints the Book of Mormon’s historicity is a given: Book of Mormon events actually occurred and its ancient participants existed in ancient history
Lancashire Saint Dies
April 10, 2018He wanders the back alleys of his childhood
Mossed and decaying bricks
Tower skyward to imprison him
Cobbles rise to thwart his escape
Watching
April 10, 2018
Leave of Absence
April 10, 2018walk out and arrive
near the lake—
any route taken
leads eventually
to this
You Are Not Alone: A Plea for Understanding the Homosexual Condition
April 10, 2018Dialogue 26.3 (Fall 1993): 119–140
In fall 1993, TJ O’Brian wrote, “You are Not Alone: A Please for Understanding the Homosexual Condition.” O’Brian was a gay man and this esay addresses how church members should treat LGBT members. He points to Jan Stout’s article among other influential pieces that were beginning to soften LDS attitudes and change practices in the early 90s. But he also notes several examples of terrible things that LDS members were still saying and doing, not including an imfamous homophobic rant from Orson Scott Card in Sunstone magazine in 1990.