James L. Clayton
James L. Clayton is the Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Utah and a member of the Dialogue Board of Editors.
From Pioneers to Provincials: Mormonism as seen by Wallace Stegner
Articles/Essays – Volume 01, No. 4
Utah and her cultural environs of southern Idaho and northern Arizona have produced three significant literary historians: Bernard DeVoto, Vardis Fisher, and Wallace Stegner. DeVoto, perhaps best remembered as a crusader for public causes rather…
Read moreThe Challenge of Secularism
Articles/Essays – Volume 03, No. 3
Belief in the eternal and the infinite, the omniscient and the omnipotent succeeded, over the milleniums, in exalting the very possibilities of human existence . . . Lewis Mumford One of the most pressing theological questions of our time…
Read moreCourage | Courage: A Journal of History, Thought and Action
Articles/Essays – Volume 06, No. 1
Robert Flanders, an exceptionally articulate and perceptive insider in RLDS matters, introduced readers of the Autumn, 1970, issue of this journal to the pilot issue of Dialogue’s RLDS cousin, Courage. What follows is an analysis…
Read moreEquality and Plain Living: Building the City of God, Community and Cooperation Among the Mormons
Articles/Essays – Volume 10, No. 4
The Supreme Court, Polygamy and the Enforcement of Morals in Nineteenth Century America
Articles/Essays – Volume 12, No. 4
Dialogue 12.4 (Winter 1979): 46–61
Clayton discusses the history behind The Supreme Court Case Reynolds v. United States (1876), and shares his opinion about what was going on between members in Salt Lake and the federal government.