Neal Chandler
Neal Chandler "shuffles papers and sometimes teaches writing at Cleveland State University in Ohio" (where he actually coordinates the Creative Writing Program). Neal and his wife Rebecca assumed the editorship of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought in 1998.
Benediction
Articles/Essays – Volume 55, No. 1
Podcast version of this piece. Here’s the truth: My faith remainstepid. Lukewarm as summer rain. Spew-worthy. A compass in fragments, I saved pieces: base plate, arrow, needle.Reassembly is beyond me. Millennia ago, I stood on…
Read moreRoger Across the Looking Glass
Articles/Essays – Volume 17, No. 1
The process is as invariable and explicable as the engineered logic of a machine. Yet for all its biological transparence, to Roger Talmage, educated, institutionally devout, and forty-two, the quite ordinary adjustment of his eyes…
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Articles/Essays – Volume 18, No. 2
Ardmoore told Carmen Stavely, who’d been away in Idaho visiting family, that what happened that Sunday morning was absolutely confidential. The bishop had instructed all who’d been present to keep the matter strictly to themselves;…
Read moreThe Only Divinely Authorized Plan for Financial Success in This Life or the Next
Articles/Essays – Volume 18, No. 3
Thelm, the man is standing in his own way. If only he would get the vision of this thing. . . . See the potential, the tremendous opportunities. If he’d just drop those skeptical blinders…
Read moreBook of Mormon Stories That My Teachers Kept From Me
Articles/Essays – Volume 24, No. 4
Dialogue 24.4 (Winter 1993):15–50
n fact, it may be no more than a kind of perversity that brings me to admit what I will tell you now, namely, that when it comes to the Book of Mormon, that most correct of books, whose pedigree we love passionately to debate and whose very namesakes we have, all of us, become, I stand mostly with Mark Twain.