Volume 50, No. 2

Summer 2017

Inside the Summer 2017 issue find important articles regarding LGBTQ issues including Bryce Cook’s “What Do We Know of God’s Will for His LGBT Children? An Examination of the LDS Church’s Position on Homosexuality” and John Gustav-Wrathall’s stellar “Why I Stay” from Sunstone 2017. Colleen McDannell looks at “Mexicans, Tourism, and Book of Mormon Geography” and Julie Smith considers “A Double Portion: An Intertextual Reading of Hannah (1 Samuel 1–2) and Marks’ Greek Woman (Mark 7:24–30).” Plus brand new reviews, fiction, personal voices, poetry and gorgeous art.

Articles/Essays

What Do We Know of God’s Will for His LGBT Children?: An Examination of the LDS Church’s Position on Homosexuality

Bryce Cook

2017: Bryce Cook, “What Do We Know Of God’s Will For His LGBT Children?: An Examination Of The Lds Church’s Position On Homosexuality,” Dialogue 50.2 (Winter 2017): 1–52. “What do We know of God’s Will for his LGBT Children?: An Examination of the LDS church’s position on homosexuality” divides it up into...

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Mexicans, Tourism, and Book of Mormon Geography

Colleen McDannell

“In Christ All Things Hold Together”: A Christian Perspective (via Levinas and Shimony) on Quantum Entanglement

David Grandy

A Double Portion: An Intertextual Reading of Hannah (1 Samuel 1–2) and Mark’s Greek Woman (Mark 7:24–30)

Julie M. Smith

Fiction: What Happened Sunday Morning

Erika Munson

Fiction: The Home Teacher

Heidi Naylor

Personal Voices: That’s Where the Light Enters

Lon Young

Personal Voices: Dreaming After Trump

Gail Turley Houston

True Ideas

C. Dylan Bassett

Averted Vision

Joanna Ellsworth

Not the Truman Show

R.A. Christmas

The Grammar of Quench

Ronald Wilcox

Echo of Boy

Darlene Young

Review: Attempts to Be Whole Scott Abbott. Immortal for Quite Some Time

Scott Russell Morris

Review: The History that Dares Speak Its Name J. Seth Anderson. LGBT Salt Lake

Gary James Bergera

2017: Gary Bergera, “The History That Dares Speak Its Name: LGBT Salt Lake ,” Dialogue 50.2 (Summer 2017): 1–52. Seth Anderson’s slim book, part of Arcadia Publishing’s multi-volume Images of Modern America photographic series, is much more than an important new contribution to Utah and LDS history. It is a revelation— a surprising,...

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Review: The Garden of Enid: By a Mormonand For Mormons Scott Hales. The Garden of Enid: Adventures of a Weird Mormon Girl, Parts One and Two

Brittany Long Olsen

Review: Laughter, Depth, and Insight: Enid Rocks Them All Scott Hales. The Garden of Enid: Adventures of a Weird Mormon Girl, Parts One and Two

Steven L. Peck

Review: Baring Imperfect Human Truths Holly Welker, ed. Baring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex, and Marriage

Elizabeth Ostler

Review: Fresh Honesty in Authentic Mormon Identity Jamie Zvirzdin, ed. Fresh Courage Take: New Directions by Mormon Women

Maxine Hanks

From the Pulpit: Why I Stay

John Gustav-Wrathall

2017: John Gustav-Wrathall, “Why I Stay,” Dialogue 50.2 (Summer 2017): 1–52. “I was excommunicated from the Church in 1986. I am a gay man in a twenty-five-year-long relationship with my husband Göran Gustav-Wrathall. We were legally married in July 2008. Over the years, people have asked me how it is that I...

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Volume Art

Art: Reflections

Robert De Groff

Art: Islamic Art and the LDS Faith

Lisa DeLong