Race, Lineage, and the 1920s-1940s Genealogical Society of Utah As a complement to Dialogue’s fall 2018 issue commemorating the end of the Church’s race-based restrictions, we offer an audio-with-slides presentation by Stirling Adams of […]
[…] Christ while serving with his unit in Northern Africa. A respite from conflict was taken to celebrate the pagan Roman emperor’s birthday and pledge allegiance to the empire. Marcellus rose before the banqueters, cast […]
The years following the return of the Jewish captives from Babylon were filled with tension. While literal walls were being built around Jerusalem to keep the city safe, pious Jewish leaders were constructing […]
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In his 2005 commencement speech, the late novelist David Foster Wallace provided an unexpectedly frank description of American adulthood for the recent graduates of Kenyon College. Listing painfully familiar annoyances associated with what he […]
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 […]
[…] for Tuba City, Tó Naneesdizí. Tangled waters. Of course. The place where crosscurrents knot together. *** “In order for a character to be centered and harmonious,” wrote Liu Shao in his treatise on personal […]
Polygamy is, for many Americans, Mormonism’s defining feature. Even now, over a century after the main church abandoned the practice, images of Latter-day Saint polygamy persist in the popular and scholarly imagination. Most accounts […]
[…] But the Godbeites were not dealing with political novices. In calling their mass meeting of independents to order in February, 1870, they found the hall filled with infiltrators from the People’s Party who proceeded […]
Dialogue 1.3 (Fall 1966): 47–62 Understanding Mormon history involves appreciating some of the formidable obstacles which confront throse who seek to write it. There is still sensitivity among Mormons to probing that might bring […]