Rebecca Chandler

Rebecca and her husband Neal assumed the editorship of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought in 1998.

Articles

The Wake of a Media Crisis: Guilt by Association or Innocence by Proclamation?

On 4 January 1990, police following a tip dug a family of five from a common grave in a barn in Kirtland, Ohio. Dennis and Cheryl Avery and their three young daughters, hands, feet, and…

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Bearing Your Sanctimony: Monologues on Dialogue

In the unabridged Webster’s, “Dialogue” is listed first as “talking together in conversation.” That seems harmless enough, but the second definition is frankly a nest of thorns: “interchange and discussion of ideas,” it says, “especially…

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About this Commemorative Issue

In a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Scott McLemee fixes the onset of the abundantly energetic “field of Mormon Studies” with two debuts: the Mormon History Association was organized in 1965 and…

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Plymouth Rock on the Mississippi

“So you’re considering a pilgrimage,” I wrote to someone I’d recently met and liked, “nothing would delight me more. You’d have some time away, you’d make new friends, get more deeply acquainted with familiar ones,…

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