Frances Lee Menlove

Frances Lee Menlove is one of the five founders of Dialogue, and the journal’s first manuscripts editor. Later she enjoyed a long career as the chief psychologist and director of human resources at the University of California Los Alamos National Laboratory. In addition to a PhD in psychology, she has an MDiv from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. A book of her essays and devotional writings, The Challenge of Honesty: Essays for Latter-day Saints by Frances Lee Menlove, was published by Signature Books in 2014. The collection’s title is drawn from a seminal and highly referenced essay she wrote for Dialogue’s first issue.

Articles

The Unending Conversation

Looking back with the perspective of fifty years, I can see (and feel) a sustaining philosophy that has guided Dialogue through its amazing half-century tenure, more than a quarter of the entire history of the LDS Church.

The Challenge of Honesty

Both the Protestant and Catholic communities are being swept by a passion for honesty. They are scrutinizing centuries-old suppositions and re-examining current attitudes and goals. In the Protestant world, the writings of Bultmann, Bonhoeffer, Tillich,…

The Challenge of Honesty

The Unbidden Prayer

A few years back, I was assisting the Ethics Committee of a large metropolitan hospital. The second case on our agenda one afternoon was presented by a pediatric nurse. Two weeks earlier, a baby in…

A Forty-Year View: Dialogue and the Sober Lessons of History

I well remember the spring and summer of 1965 when Gene England, Wesley Johnson, Paul Salisbury, Joseph Jeppson, and I got together to explore the idea of an unofficial Mormon publication. There were lively conversations culminating in a meeting at the Johnson home on July 11, where we voted to incorporate as a non-profit under the laws of Utah. The History Department at Stanford allowed us to use a portion of Wes’s office as our base—no rent, no utilities to pay. Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought was the result. A lot has been written about that early history. However, there are a couple of things I see now that I didn’t clearly grasp then. First, I, for one, was a thoroughly pre-correlation Mormon. Second, the Church is not immune from the sober lessons of history.