Ongoing Dialogue
Linda King NewellSince accepting the editorship of DIALOGUE last spring, we have had a num ber of close friends ask with an air of incredulity, “I think it’s wonderful, but why would you take on such an…
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Fall 1982
Since accepting the editorship of DIALOGUE last spring, we have had a num ber of close friends ask with an air of incredulity, “I think it’s wonderful, but why would you take on such an…
A few years back fifty LDS academics were asked to list the most eminent intellectuals in Mormon history. B. H. Roberts and Orson Pratt were most frequently nominated. James E. Talmage and John A. Widtsoe…
The most prolific and perhaps most influential early Mormon pamphleteer was Orson Pratt. From his conversion in 1830 to his death in 1881, he authored over thirty works on both religious and scientific topics. Influential…
Parley P. and Orson Pratt were, with the exception of Joseph Smith, the most significant of the Mormon thinkers to emerge during the early years of the Restoration. Not only did the Church develop complex…
How is the Mormon Church viewed by those who are not members? One view is that Mormons are successful and prosperous, that they “take care of their own,” that they live good lives, and that…
For much of its history, the Relief Society has been primarily concerned with educating and providing compassionate service to its own members, carrying out instructions passed on from priesthood leaders, keeping its own organization running…
The year 1981 saw the deaths of Harvey Fletcher and Henry Eyring, men of great religious faith whose superb professional achievements placed them in the first ranks of the nation’s scientists. (See Steven H. Heath’s…
Few men in Mormon history have exemplified the unity of science and religion better than Henry Eyring. A devout student of science for over sixty years, a brilliant chemist who was internationally renowned, and at…
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . . . It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”[1] This was Charles Dickens’s appraisal of life…
We can imagine ourselves visiting Aunt Rachel Grant, long-time president of the Thirteenth Ward Relief Society and one of the Mormon Church’s “leading ladies,” at her home on Salt Lake City’s Second East Street. In…
The trees are making white
buds. Shrunken heads,
last year’s berries, hang
on leafing branches. I do not
A plain table big enough for a few chairs faces the plate glass execution room, light and airy with ample space to die. Below, not so close to heaven, Rows of stiff cells carry the pall. Did the rose garden,…
Parley P. and Orson Pratt were, with the exception of Joseph Smith, the most significant of the Mormon thinkers to emerge during the early years of the Restoration. Not only did the Church develop complex…
Glenn Pearson begins his book by denning good LDS scholars as “scholars in the best priesthood sense” (p. 1). Because he doesn’t explain this term, I’m not certain what he means, but because I am…
This triumphant biography is very much what we would expect the official story of a beloved General Authority to be. It is the story of the good boy who grew better and better, of the…
To members of the Mormon Church, J. Reuben Clark holds an exalted place in the organization’s history. For nearly three decades (1933-1961) he was an influential, innovative, and charismatic member of the Church’s First Presidency in…