A Dialogue Retrospective
April 1, 2018[…] Elbert Peck of Sunstone for allowing Dialogue to host several sessions and panel discussions in various symposia over the last six years. On an even more personal note, I suspect that the handing off […]
[…] Elbert Peck of Sunstone for allowing Dialogue to host several sessions and panel discussions in various symposia over the last six years. On an even more personal note, I suspect that the handing off […]
[…] historian of the English language and law, in describing the paradigmatic shift from early feudal European society to a world of secular, territorial nation-states and market economy, observed that we had moved “from status […]
[…] new standards was the idea that individual, not community, standards should be the basis for judging conduct.”[ 6] Since the LDS community considers its communal values to be superior to any individual, such a […]
[…] give us. I like that idea. It vindicates us to a great extent, but I don’t totally buy it. My own faith includes room for fallibility even in ecclesiastical leaders. I personally find Brigham […]
[…] close friend Helen Madsen McKinney, artist and devoted neighbor Osral Allred. Strangers appeared too: collectors hoping to buy her art. Memorial Day visitors touring the historical homes of Spring City, and the curious from […]
[…] use and the role it plays in the ways Mormons accommodate the larger society. What has not been examined, however, are the ways mass media, such as movies, television, newspapers, etc., tend to describe Mormons.
[…] conference agenda turned out kind of thin. And when, in fact, the Regional Representative delayed the conference over half an hour, leaving more than two hundred assembled women to practice hymns and grudging patience […]
[…] a certain admiration for them in that they struggle through life, indeed finding some way to survive.[ 6] Because they are survivors, her characters are pitiable but not pitied. They are in troublesome circumstances—a […]
[…] discovering together, in discourse, new levels of truth (or at least agreement) that neither side suspected before.”[ 6] His is “a view of rhetoric as the whole art of discovering and sharing warrantable assertion.”[7] […]
[…] he continued. They might spot and stain the carpet. No heels on women’s shoes. No music or 3×5 note cards to remind us of our words and music. “Be sure to remember your white […]