Racism
October 6, 2019Dialogue 52.3 (Fall 2019): 203–208
The only way that you can both help the poor and needy and preach the gospel is if you let go of racism “and help others to do the same.”
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Embraced in Love | Eric D. Huntsman, Becoming the Beloved Disciple: Coming unto Christ through the Gospel of John
October 6, 2019In Becoming the Beloved Disciple, Eric Huntsman successfully navigates a complex text, bringing clarity, insight, and charity to the Gospel of John in a way that will appeal both to those already well versed in…
“Is this the Promised End?” | Steven L. Peck, The Tragedy of King Leere, Goatherd of the La Sals
October 6, 2019Steven L. Peck’s The Tragedy of King Leere, Goatherd of the La Sals is, like many of Peck’s works, almost impossible to categorize. Is it a modern-day ecological interpretation of the famous Shakespearian familial tragedy?…
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On Truth | George B. Handley, If Truth Were a Child: Essays
October 6, 2019Taking the word “essay” in its root meaning as “an attempt,” BYU humanities professor George Handley’s new book of essays If Truth Were a Child comprises the attempts of the author to reconcile intellectual curiosity…
The Absurd in Art and Mormonism
October 6, 2019This issue marks the first time that a Dialogue cover has ever had an LDS Church President riding on a dinosaur. Or a spiral jetty made of salt-water taffy. Or green jello stacked on a…
To the Bishop Who Conducted My Father’s Funeral Service Yesterday
October 6, 2019As part of your opening welcome over the pulpit, you announced to us that filming and photography were not allowed in the chapel. We had just gathered there in front of my father’s closed casket…
A Mormon Boy Meets a King
October 6, 2019“Stop gawking at that guy,” Mother said, as I stood staring at a man while shopping in a five and dime store in Idaho Falls. I had never seen a black person before. I stood…
The Sacrifice
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True Religion
October 6, 2019When you’re young you think “widow” is a misprint for “window.”
Then the tarp of age gets pulled over you and the words drift apart.
There is a cleanness to good marriage that is like the Renaissance.
It is a force of beauty that tramples mere love. When the blood rushes