[…] leaves still and golding in deep shade. You see no one and hear not even birds. But the pale trunks together seem to hum like choir rows, the performance of their true colors imminent. […]
[…] spent a few hours basking in our blessings of atonement and progeny, we pass an accident on the interstate. I say accident, though what we distinguish through the blur of cars and parked fire […]
A section from the epic theological poem “My Turn on Earth” featured at By Common Consent and “found” by guest editor Steven Peck:
[…] and suffragist, delivered a speech at a Philadelphia women’s rights convention in 1854 in which she discussed the day of Pentecost. She said: Then Peter stood forth—some one has said that Peter made a […]
[…] know this one thing.” Instead I play with being a different person, one who is whole, in the eyes of strangers, simply a human being, anyone. After all, four years is hardly any time, […]
In this episode of the Dialogue Out Loud podcast, we hear from Justin Goodson and Brian H. Shirts about their personal essays in the spring 2023 issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. […]
Four years ago, I was living my best life as a touring a cappella singer. The sum of my ambition was to make great and meaningful art and create the first a cappella group […]
by Douglas H. Thayer Originally published Fall 1972 (07:03) Paul kept both sweaty hands on the steering wheel and breathed through his mouth. Her diaper dirty, Lisa lay just behind him in the back […]
[…] edited by Latter-day Saints who wish to bring their faith into dialogue with the larger stream of world religious thought and with human experience as a whole and to foster artistic and scholarly achievement […]
“Never learn to play the organ, the old woman told me. I should call her Sister something, but I don’t remember her last name. Never learn to play, she told me. Once you do […]