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Jana Riess to address Miller-Eccles Group

Scholar, author, Dialogue Board member and master-tweeter Jana Riess will speak to gatherings of the Miller-Eccles Study Group in Claremont and Orange County, California on September 17th and 18th. Jana is the author of such…

No Longer as Strangers

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…

What The Church Means To People Like Me

by Richard D. Poll Originally published in Winter 1967 A natural reaction to my title—since this is not a testimony meeting in which each speaker is his own subject—might be, “Who cares?” For who in…

About My Conversion: Directions to a Nonbeliever

by Anne Elizabeth Berbert Originally published in Fall/Winter 2001 Run your finger across the arc of my cheekbone. Notice how it curves like the hull of Noah’s ark that propelled life through earth’s watery death.…

The Gift

by Levi S. Peterson Originally published in Summer 1982 On a snowy evening, Gerard de Valois stepped from a tram near Quai Marcellis in the Belgian city of Liege. He positioned his hat more firmly,…

Dialogue Author on Proposition 8

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…

Sunstone Symposium begins in Salt Lake City

The Sunstone Symposium begins August 4th, with a conversation between Jan Shipps and Jon Butler on “The Fate of New Religious Movements When They are No Longer New” at 8 p.m. at the Sheraton at…

The Original Length of the Scroll of Hôr

Readers interested in the historical background of the paper and the current state of scholarship on the topic are encouraged to visit the FAIR Wiki on the Book of Abraham. Raw data tables for this…

The Weeping God of Mormonism

by Eugene England Originally published in Spring 2002 Editor’s Note: July 22, 2010 would have been Eugene England’s 77th birthday. The Eugene England Foundation has launched a website, eugeneengland.org to make his work accessible to…