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…
We are thrilled to announce a new online resource for the work of Dialogue’s founding editor, Eugene England. Below is the announcement from the Eugene England Foundation: On what would have been Eugene England’s 77th…
by Todd Compton, Paul Edwards, Steve Epperson, Mark D. Thomas, Margaret Toscano, and David P. Wright Originally published in Winter 1996 Thomas: We live in a society that is increasingly secular and fragmented. Popular culture…
by Ben Christensen Originally published in Fall 2005 I WROTE “GETTING OUT” as a somewhat naive twenty-four-year-old. Now I return, in theory a wise and mature twenty-five-year-old. Inevitably, I’ll find whatever I write here equally…
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…
From the very beginning, Dialogue was intended to be a way to get people talking about Mormonism in new ways. For many years, the Letters to the Editor were an important site of these conversations…
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…
by Richard F. Haglund, Jr. Originally published in Autumn-Winter 1973 Sometimes people ask if religion and science are not opposed to one another. They are: in the sense that the thumb and fingers of my…
By Edward L. Kimball Originally published in Autumn/Winter 1973 Henry Eyring, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Metallurgy at the University of Utah, is probably the most widely known scientist in the Church. He was born…