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The Gold Plates and Ancient Metal Epigraphy
July 17, 2019Dialogue 52.2 (Summer 2019):37–58
Ryan Thomas highlights the different metal writing cultures from around the same time as the Book of Mormon periods to see if it is historically likely for the Gold Plates to exist from that time period.
Automatic Writing and the Book of Mormon An Update
July 17, 2019Dialogue 52.2 (Spring 2019):1–58Attributing the Book of Mormon’s origin to supernatural forces has
worked well for Joseph Smith’s believers, then as well as now, but not so
well for critics who seem certain natural abilities were responsible. For over
180 years, several secular theories have been advanced as explanations.
Spring 2019 Issue Art
May 13, 2019
Eugene England Essay Contest Winners
May 13, 2019
Patience, Faith, and the Temple in 2019
May 13, 2019Dialogue 52.1 (2019): 169–178
Young shares her testimony of temple work even though she found some wording in the endowment ceremony sexist.
A Personal Conversion | David C. Dollahite, God’s Tender Mercies: Sacred Experiences of a Mormon Convert
May 13, 2019Brigham Young University School of Family Life professor David C. Dollahite’s memoir God’s Tender Mercies primarily focuses on Dollahite’s conversion, his mission to the Boston area, and his courtship and marriage to Mary Kimball. One…
Feminism, Polygamy, and Murder | John Bennion, An Unarmed Woman.
May 13, 2019“I’m like Alma’s daughters,” rough-and-tumble ranch girl Rachel O’Brian tells her polygamist stepfather J.D. Rockwell. “Someone has to speak up to you patriarchs” (118). An Unarmed Woman is a gripping murder mystery as well as…
Mere Tears and Torrents, Signs and Seals: The Sweet Semantic Everything of Troubled Love | Matthew James Babcock, Four Tales of Troubled Love
May 13, 2019If Matthew Babcock’s Four Tales of Troubled Love is about something, it is about private worlds; the reconciliation of self and other; the reckoning of what two people are with each other, without each other, and with the people that made them and that they make in turn; the luke and warm compromise of to-be-with-you and as-I-am.
An Astonishing String of Stories | Steven L. Peck, Tales from Pleasant Grove
May 13, 2019There is a kind of madness that comes from living in Utah. Its sources are many—tall mountains and vast deserts, the ability to see a hundred miles at a time, the imaginative force of a…