[…] be and become. The notion of “a conversation as old as Mormonism itself” is daunting and possibly counter-productive, backward-looking, exclusive. However, Harrell moves toward cutting it down to size when he provides an overview, […]
It’s a hard truth: you have to be damn smart to be a writer of good fiction. If you’re dumb, forget it. You have to hear words in your head—and who doesn’t? But you […]
In response to the question “How can a spirit be a member of the godhead?” Joseph Fielding Smith wrote, “we should have no time to enter into speculation in relation to the Holy Ghost,” […]
[…] light, a composite memory crafted from the movies, pictures, and representations of the scene I had seen over my life. I kicked myself: how immured was I to that story that it was the […]
Dialogue 49.3 (Fall 2016): 75–88 Probably the most destabilizing piece of historical information most Mormons come across is Joseph Smith’s polygamy.
[…] from going to Primary, I am perpetually terrified of giving sacrament meeting talks. I even asked Penny to give this talk for me, but she said no because this pulpit is too big for her.
Dialogue 49.2 (Summer 2016): 51–60 “Of course, I didn’t really want to be a wife. But I was eight years old, and in my mind, if all I really wanted from the future was […]
[…] LGBT youth suicides in the Mormon community has risen in the wake of the November 2015 handbook policy change that categorizes same-sex married couples as “apostates” and forbids baptism to children in same-sex married households.
[…] anyone who does?” The girl held up her luminous stone and used its light to look Emma over for a moment, taking in her bare feet, her worn dress, her dirt-streaked face. “Are you […]
Benjamin Franklin purportedly offered some counsel for those wanting to be remembered long after they are dead and buried: “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”Sage advice. But for many, if […]