Dialogue 39.1 (Spring 2006): 1–18
Perhaps no other moral issue divides the American public more than abortion. In part, the controversy hinges on the question of when the spirit enters the body. If a spirit were predestined for a given mortalbody and that body is aborted before birth, the spirit would, technically,never be able to have a mortal existence.
Supposedly, now is an auspicious time to be doing scholarship on Mor monism. According to a 2002 Chronicle of Higher Education article, Mormon studies has received a “surge of scholarly interest” from specialists in various…
Unquestionably, Dialogue has a tradition. It has been on the Mormon scene for forty years now, and those who manage, edit, and read it are determined to see it make another forty.
Wayne C. Booth, George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, died on October 10, 2005. From humble beginnings in American Fork, Utah, he went on to become one of the…
Ann M. Johnson, Praise for the Summer Issue
Dear Nathan:
I appreciate your “An Open Letter to the Dialogue Board” (38, no. 4 [Winter 2005]: 227-29). I consider it a sincere and thoughtful expression of an ideal I share: a more balanced, diverse, and inclusive dialogue about Mormon religion and culture. As a former editor of Dialogue (1971-76), I am pleased that, as you say, “you care a great deal about the health and public reputation of Mormon intellectual fora” (227).
“Imagine.” Will Evans’s evocative text begins with an invitation to the reader to enter the Welsh immigrant’s bull pen, roll a smoke with free tobacco plugged on the nailed-down lid of a lard can, and…
Robert S. Wicks and Fred R. Foister selected the title Junius & Joseph to emphasize their thesis that Joseph Smith’s death was a political assassination. The authors point out that the Junius tracts were “issued…
The phone rings once. I think about hanging up. The phone rings twice. I begin to believe my luck might hold out. The third ring proves me wrong. Something is amiss when grown children, adults…
Our firsts and lasts were leaves burned the hour we left. Ted Hughes You could say that my life and The Walker’s life—well, it’s all been a question of firsts. And to be honest, I thought…