Owen E. Clark, Author at Dialogue Journal

Letters to the Editor

Dear Sirs: What ever shadow of doubt may have been cast on one’s loyalty to the Mormon Church through association with Dialogue (especially during the early years) has certainly been dispelled by some recent events.…

One of Ours | Annie Clark Tanner, A Biography of Ezra Thompson Clark

Articles/Essays – Volume 10, No. 1

This is a slender biography of a Mormon pioneer and patriarch which was written by an adoring daughter in her later years. The inclusion of this volume in the serial publications of the Tanner Trust…

Freud as Friend of the Gospel

Articles/Essays – Volume 11, No. 3

When the church orator poses his rhetorical question, “Who’s on the Lord’s side, who?”, no one thinks to suggest Sigmund Freud. Most Mormons associate Freud with lustful sexuality, primitive drives and (somehow) biological evolution. Psychoanalysis,…

Heavenly Bound | Raymond A. Moody, Life After Life

Articles/Essays – Volume 12, No. 3

Medicine has rediscovered that all life ends in death, and now seems marginally willing to explore the possibility of life after death. Raymond Moody, a psychiatrist trained in philosophy, writes one of the more straightforward…