The Weight of Priesthood
April 4, 2010by Stephen Carter I WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD one March Sunday. The chapel curtains were bright with the springtime sun, as if angels were standing outside. The church itself was new, built only a year…
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Dialogue Announces 2009 Contest Winners
April 3, 2010We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 Dialogue writing contests. Dialogue Best of the Year Awards Dialogue Best of the Year Awards are for contributions judged as superior in their respective categories:…
Crawling out of the Primordial Soup
April 2, 2010A 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…
An Open Letter to the Dialogue Board
March 30, 2010by Nathan Oman Originally published Winter 2005 (38:4) I think that Dialogue has some serious problems. My thoughts on this are based on many hours of conversation about Mormon intellectual life with LDS grad students…
Print index of Dialogue Volumes 1-42 now available
March 30, 2010Scholars and students of Mormon thought have been without an updated print index of Dialogue for decades. Fortunately, they go without no longer. We are pleased to announce the print version of Dialogue: A Complete…
Rooted in Christian Hope: The Case for Pacifism
March 15, 2010by Richard Sherlock As a pacifist for my entire adult life, I find the Dialogue call for papers too inviting to ignore. During the Vietnam War thirty-five years ago, I came to grips with what…
Joseph Smith and the Sources of Love
March 1, 2010by Truman Madsen Originally published Spring 1966 (01:01) MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, TODAY WE REACH INTO A REALM THAT is subtle and intricate, all intertwined with feeling. More than usual I pray that you will…
The Intellectual Tradition of the Latter-day Saints
February 25, 2010by Leonard Arrington Originally published Spring 1969 (04:01) In one of the earliest books of imaginative literature about the American West (published in 1826), novelist-editor-missionary-biographer Timothy Flint reveals a common impression of the time that…
The Possibility of Dialogue
January 26, 2010By Eugene England Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.—Paul the Apostle The paradoxical words of Paul quoted above are an obvious place to begin to consider the possibilities of dialogue about a…