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Notes and Comments
July 17, 2024
Life to the Spirit: A Rejoinder
July 17, 2024My first reaction to Mr. Christmas and Mr. Driggs was to hurry back to my essay to see if I had really said those things. I seemed to be hearing myself through a kind of…
Notes and Comments
July 17, 2024Taking Flanders Too Seriously | Merging Business and Religion | We Love the Americans, But . . . | An Uncasual Review of Williams
Short Notices
July 17, 2024Wallace Alan Raynor, The Everlasting Spires: A Story of the Salt Lake Temple
Helen B. Gibbons, Saint and Savage
Ecumenical Cinema | Robert Wise, dir., The Sound of Music
July 11, 2024God is not dead in Hollywood. The phenomenal success of The Sound of Music means that nuns are in again, and two current movies give us a choice, according to side-by-side newspaper ads, of Rosalind…
Notes and Comments
July 11, 2024On Mormon Theology | Riding Herd (Excerpt from a Letter) | Production of Plays with Mormon Themes | Improving the Gospel Doctrine Class
Volume Art
July 3, 2024Listen to an interview about these pieces here.
Reconsidering Reconciliation
July 3, 2024Dear Editor,
I read with interest Robert A. Rees, “Truth and Reconciliation: Reflections on the Fortieth Anniversary of the LDS Church’s Lifting the Priesthood and Temple Restrictions for Black Mormons of African Descent” in the summer 2023 issue of Dialogue (56, no. 2).
My biography is much like Rees’s….
“They Have Received Many Wounds”: Applying a Trauma-Informed Lens to the Book of Mormon
July 3, 2024Dialogue 57.2 (Summer 2024): 5–40
This article will explain what trauma is and how to be trauma informed, describe a few examples from the Book of Mormon in which a sensitivity to trauma could reveal greater insights from the text, and argue for the importance of using a trauma hermeneutic. We conclude with an application of a trauma hermeneutic in religious settings and an argument for the importance of being aware of how scriptural trauma may interact with the potential trauma of readers.