Lowell Bennion
LOWELL BENNION was the first director of Institutes of Religion at the Universities of Utah and Arizona and taught sociology at the University of Utah for ten years. For sixteen years he served as executive director of the Community Services Council in Salt Lake City.
“For By Grace Are Ye Saved”
Articles/Essays – Volume 01, No. 4
Years ago, when I was a Mormon missionary, I became anxious when a Protestant minister quoted these words of Paul: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is…
Read moreThis-Worldly and Other-Worldly Sex: A Response
Articles/Essays – Volume 02, No. 3
Carl Broderick’s essay treats many aspects of sex in an objective, discreet, and interesting way which should be helpful to Latter-day Saints, both in personal and family living and also in their responsibilities in the…
Read moreThe Mormon Family in the Modern World: Introduction
Articles/Essays – Volume 02, No. 3
Not only is the family the primary social institution in Mormonism, it is also much too large a theme for a special section in one issue of Dialogue. Hopefully, the Journal will be able to…
Read morePresident David O. McKay: 1873-1970: My Memories of President David O. McKay
Articles/Essays – Volume 04, No. 4
My first recollection of David O. McKay is a sermon he gave in a Sacrament Meeting which led me as a teenager to engage in critical self-examination and to leave the meeting with high resolve. …
Read moreA New Look at Repentance: The Gift of Repentance
Articles/Essays – Volume 05, No. 3
Except for the preaching of evangelists—whether of a Billy Graham or of the small holiness sects—one hears little of repentance in this secular age, and this is also true among Latter-day Saints. It is not…
Read moreA Black Mormon Perspective | Alan Gerald Cherry, It’s You and Me Lord! (My Experiences as a Black Mormon)
Articles/Essays – Volume 05, No. 4
This is a brief autobiography of Alan Cherry, a young black man who grew up in New York City, entered the Air Force in Texas after a year and a half of college, was court…
Read moreCarrying Water on Both Shoulders
Articles/Essays – Volume 06, No. 1
A thoughtful Latter-day Saint who grows up in his faith and takes it seriously may encounter difficulties as he immerses himself in secular education, particularly on the graduate level, and more particularly if he is…
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