We 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:…
Earlier this year, Dialogue Board member Greg Prince interviewed Shaun Casey, a professor of Christian Ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. Casey’s recent book, The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) formed the background of this interview. Below is an excerpt from the conversation; you can read the full interview here.
In this Dialogue podcast Thomas Wayment discusses “The New Testament: A Translation for Latter-day Saints A Study Bible.” From the Miller Eccles website: “I would like to share the story that is not told in…
When a five-year-old boy tragically disappears from a quiet LDS neighborhood, grief-stricken family members, detectives, ward members, and suspects all struggle to find their footing in the agonizing aftermath. In The Contortionists, the new novel…
by Douglas Thayer Originally published Spring 2006 (39:01) Douglas: What got you started writing, the original impulse? Did you always think of yourself as a writer or was it adult-onset? Darrell: Reading. That’s the answer.…
Laughter, Depth, and Insight: Enid Rocks Them AllScott Hales. The Garden of Enid: Adventures of a Weird Mormon Girl. Parts One and Two. Kofford Books. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2016. 169 pp. Paperback: $22.95.
Reviewed by Steven L. Peck. Dialogue, Summer 2017 (50:2).
When I was growing up, comic strips provided part of the ontology of my world. I devoured regular comic books, graphic novels, and other bubble-voiced media, but comic strips played a different and more important role than these other closely related forms. It was in the four-paneled strip that I was rst introduced to philosophical thought, political commentary, satire, and the exploration of questions rather than the explication of information toward an answer. Plus they made me laugh. There was a point being made. About life. And often about my place in it. Comic strips were my first introduction into a weird form of deep psychology that let me explore what it meant to be me. The sign on Lucy’s famous wooden stand in Peanuts, offering, instead of lemonade, “Psychiatric Help: 5¢: The Doctor is IN” does not seem an inappropriate way to express one of the functions these comic strips played in my life. I suppose given my age it is not surprising that it was Charles Schultz’s famous comic that proved the gateway drug to my infatuation with the medium.
For more articles like this, please visit the Fall 2018 Issue. It was around midday. 12:30 to be exact. You can have some hallucinatory experiences around that time. Especially when you haven’t eaten and the…
2013: Robert Rees, “Easter,” Dialogue 46.2 (Summer 2013): 92 – 93. A poem about a grandfather watching his grandson experience Easter. 2013: Michael Hicks, “Singing in the Easter Choir beside My Enemy,” Dialogue 46.2 (Summer 2013): 103. A poem…
2019: Margaret Blair Young, “Patience, Faith, and the Temple in 2019” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 52 No. 1(2019): 169–178. Young shares her testimony of temple work even though she found some wording in…
Web Only Fall 2019 Feature Kirstie Stanger Weyland was born in Ethiopia then later adopted and raised in the Provo-Orem Utah area. She served a Spanish-speaking mission to Panama from 2015-2016. Kirstie completed her Bachelor…