Sorrow and Song
March 22, 2018That morning you came to me
I saw the lamp arising in your beard,
a flash of solder and fire
wisping in your robes and hair
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Miracle
March 22, 2018Lucille Wentworth sat in her working on her cross-stitch, watching Judy and Ray hold hands, sitting across from her on the couch. It was late, past one; they’d talked for hours, the conversation flowing around…
’Atta Boy
March 22, 2018Latham Runyon wondered what time he ought to close his window. It was going to be a tongue-hanger today. But for now, the morning was still dewy and bearable. He pulled his half-glasses up to…
Religion and Natasha McDonald
March 22, 2018I AM NATASHA MCDONALD. THIS IS MY MOM AND DAD. I HAVE CEREBRAL PALSY. I THINK AND FEEL LIKE YOU DO BUT THE PART OF MY BRAIN THAT CONTROLS MY PHYSICAL SELF WAS DAMAGED WHEN…
The Making of Grave Community Sin
March 22, 2018Few articles published in Dialogue disturbed my intellectual comfort as Dr. Bradley Walker’s three-part series on the deplorable condition of Latin American Saints.[1] For some three decades, I lived off and on in Third World…
The Maturing of the Oak: The Dynamics of LDS Growth in Latin America
March 22, 2018In 1926 just before leaving Argentina after a six-month mission and few baptisms, Elder Melvin J. Ballard of the Council of the Twelve Apostles drew on natural images to suggest the future growth of the…
How Many Members Are There Really? Two Censuses and the Meaning of LDS Membership in Chile and Mexico
March 22, 2018How many members are there and what does it mean to be a member? The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints regularly publishes figures representing Church membership. If nowhere else they appear in the…
The Psalms
March 22, 2018The Psalms were prayed by David and Solomon, Isaiah and Jeremiah, Jesus, Matthew and Paul, Jerome and Augustine, Ibn Ezra and Rashi, Aquinas, Luther and Calvin, and Martin Luther King and Mother Teresa—in short, by…
Keywords: Joseph Smith, Language Change, and Theological Innovation, 1829-44
March 22, 2018In a June 1843 public meeting, Joseph Smith was asked why “gathering . . . the people of God” was such an important principle. He responded with this lively bit of wisdom: “A man never…
Letters to the Editor
March 22, 2018Gary James Bergera, Signature Books Defended
Robert Garrett, Hamblin Ad Hominem?
James L. Rasmussen, Erotic Literature and the Lord
Stephen Lamb, Sexual Morality Revisited