When Did You Become Black?
January 14, 2019[…] DNA test, Houston finds some African ancestory. “Where to begin in answering all those questions? But at the most basic level, I simply liked that I was from Africa. The percentage was small but […]
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The Gift of Language | Heidi Naylor, Revolver
October 26, 2018The stories in Heidi Naylor’s short story collection Revolver present characters who have experienced regret, grief, loss, and even death. As readers, we have the opportunity to peer into the abyss of their lives, […]
Thomas Aquinas Meets Joseph Smith: Toward a Mormon Ethics of Natural Law
October 26, 2018In opposition to Christian traditions that teach human guilt as a result of original sin, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches that humans “will be punished for their own sins, and […]
Decolonizing the Blossoming: Indigenous People’s Faith in a Colonizing Church
October 26, 2018My grandfather was a medicine man, a practitioner of a ceremony called the Blessingway—Hozhoojii. The Blessingway is described as the foundation of Navajo spirituality, the “scriptures” if you will. This ceremony informs and organizes […]
To Be Young, Mormon, and Tongan
October 26, 2018In his article “Toward a Tribal Critical Race Theory in Education,” Professor Bryan Brayboy posits that our stories are our theories.I feel most comfortable in story. As both a Mormon and a Tongan, […]
Anything but Orthodox | Matthew James Babcock, Heterodoxologies
October 26, 2018[…] imagined scenarios, letters with no hope of an answer. His “Short Address to the Assassins of the World” zings with a pestering playfulness: “First, why the three names? Must everyone in the club be […]
Attempts to Be Whole | Scott Abbott, Immortal for Quite Some Time
October 26, 2018[…] comes from a devoted Mormon family and that his brother was gay and died of AIDS is the tagline that seems to sell the book—and this review, too, apparently, as I am writing that […]
Just Saying | Stanton Harris Hall, Just Seeing
October 26, 2018Stan Hall was one of Dialogue’s most enthusiastic volunteers back in the ’70s when I was its editor. We published some of his poetry then and were sorry when he moved back to his […]
A New Step in Understanding
May 4, 2018[…] extreme forms of the Augustinian-Pelagian controversy, there is no recognition of what Chesterton once called “the good news of original sin,” the news, namely, that man is not left to his own resources but […]
The Church and the Law | Dallin H. Oaks, “The Suppression of the Nauvoo Expositor,” and Orma Linford, “The Mormons and the Law: The Polygamy Cases”
May 4, 2018[…] this reviewer, together with many others who descended from polygamous families, would still be in the spirit world. As far as the law was concerned, plural marriages were unrecorded civil and religious contracts. Probably […]