Mormonism and Capital Punishment: A Doctrinal Perspective, Past and Present by Marvin R. Gardner, originally published Spring 1979 ON JANUARY 17, 1977, Gary Mark Gilmore’s execution by a Utah firing squad ended an almost ten-year…
by Benjamin E. Park In his Socratic dialogue Phaedo, Plato offered a multi-layered argument for the immortality of the soul, claiming that the human spirit belonged with the Forms—that is, the highest and most fundamental…
by Lauri Gobel Leslie Even when we are asleep, our minds are active. Scientists surmise that our brains process and sort the events of the day at this time. Spiritual people believe God sometimes uses…
An article by Dialogue’s poetry editor, David Haglund, in a recent edition of Slate wonders (again) where those Mormon Miltons and Shakespeares might be, and whether we may have skipped a few centuries and produced…
A Step toward the Emergence of an LDS Theology Compatible with Organic Evolution by Steven L. Peck Wesley J. Wildman, a liberal evangelical Christian, contributed this issue’s sermon as part of the ongoing “From the…