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…
Note: This interview, conducted by Dialogue’s editor, introduces Richard J Van Wagoner, whose art is featured in this issue. Richard is a retired professor of art from Weber State University, where he and Levi sat…
Eight times the Lord lamented that it grieved him to lose the branches of His vineyard (Jac. 5). Surely it grieves him to lose the women who have left the Church or quietly disengaged from active Church involvement. It grieves me. I miss them terribly.