[…] the whole? Do you expect the stories to be connected by characters or theme or tone and therefore search for universal elements? Do you come to each story afresh, hungry for wonder and new insights?
The thesis of this paper is a modest one, namely, that reading the Book of Mormon with an eye to its literary context significantly enhances the reading experience regardless of whether one’s objective […]
[…] and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have […]
[…] of the state. At the same time, Fluhman shows, popular thinking about religion was changing. The 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago hosted a Parliament of Religions that admitted not only Protestants and other acknowledged […]
Jesus and I were the only white people in the sanctuary. One summer, while outside Washington, D.C., on a college internship, I walked across the street to church. When I opened the door and […]
Dialogue 47.4 (Winter 2014): 89–94 The day the missionaries came to our house in 1988, a rainbow fell across the sky in our neighborhood on the hill. I stood on the ledge of the […]
Dialogue 47.4 (Winter 2014): 79–84 One day you’ll probably hear the name Kate Kelly. And you’ll probably ask me my thoughts about her and her work with Ordain Women and her subsequent excommunication.
Mette Ivie Harrison’s new novel is a work of genre fiction. Like other mysteries, The Bishop’s Wife revolves around a crime the main character eventually solves. In this case, a young woman disappears, leaving […]
[…] Someone to stand hand-in-hand with, backs turned against the prying, judgmental eyes of the rest of the world. And maybe that had been the problem with that wife of his. She was too self-contained. […]
To honor this legendary Mormon publication, I’ve collected from various Exponent bloggers some thoughts about Dialogue‘s role in their lives and about Dialogue articles that have particularly impacted them. MayDialogue continue on for another […]