Helen Beach Cannon

A Celebration of Diversity: A Heritage of Faith: Talks Selected from BYU Women’s Conferences

In 1986 Deseret Book published an anthology of talks selected from BYU women’s conferences. That collection, Woman to Woman, as the title suggests, included talks exclusively by Church women. Now, a 1988 anthology includes both…

On the Edge of Solipsism | Larry E. Morris, The Edge of the Reservoir

Comparisons, they say, are odious, yet I find it difficult to comment on Larry E. Morris’s new novel, The Edge of the Reservoir, without referring to Anne Tyler’s latest novel, Breathing Lessons (New York: Alfred…

…of the Book…

My friend’s two-year-old loves the stories in books. He loves them so much that sometimes he takes a book from his mother’s hands, places it on the floor, and tries to step into the story.…

Pertinent to Our Enterprise | Wayne C. Booth, The Vocation of a Teacher

Why, you may ask, review a book on teaching for Dialogue! The reasons are several and compelling. 

In the first place, author Wayne C. Booth, surely one of the most significant critics now writing in English and perhaps in any language, unashamedly traces his roots to Mormonism.

Empathy

Strange Love: The School of Love by Phillis Barber

The Paradox of Paradox: Strangers in Paradox: Explorations in Mormon Theology by Margaret and Paul Toscano

Unnatural History: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams

Sacred Clothing: An Inside-Outside Perspective