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The issue of homosexual relationships is among the most public struggles facing religious groups in America today. The issue is not as simple as gay people versus religious groups, as rhetoric on either side often suggests, but it has become increasingly apparent that there is significant overlap of people that identify both as homosexual and religious. Mormon writing on homosexuality often has had a pastoral character, aimed either at easing the transition for those seeking to leave the church or smoothing the way for those who desire to remain with in it.

by Dixie Partridge It’s as if the fields of five decades have been broomed clean—dry as straw. But in the border woods, ground holds scent: leaf-humus and pine, an after-hint of smoke, or ash. Evening:…

On August 30th, the LDS Newsroom posted an announcement that Church officials are involved in talks with Chinese government officials in an effort to “regularize” church functions in China. The following essay from our Fall…

In the Winter 2009 issue of Dialogue, Robert K. Vischer and others contributed to a series of perspectives on Proposition 8 . In the August 13 edition of Commonweal, Vischer revisits some of the same…