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Blogging General Conference

I’ll be blogging conference live at Dialogue’s affiliated blog, By Common Consent, with real-time coverage from the Conference Center and lots of discussion, both serious and silly, in the comment section. Can’t quite tell what…

Mark Silk to Speak on Secularism at USU

Dr. Mark Silk is the Director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, and a professor of the same subject at Trinity College, Connecticut. He will speak on…

Jana Riess to address Miller-Eccles Group

Scholar, author, Dialogue Board member and master-tweeter Jana Riess will speak to gatherings of the Miller-Eccles Study Group in Claremont and Orange County, California on September 17th and 18th. Jana is the author of such…

A Note about Electronic Subscription Access

If you are a current subscriber, you should have received an e-mail containing your assigned username and password. The subject line was: Subject: [Dialogue – A Journal of Mormon Thought] Your username and password If…

No Longer as Strangers

On August 30th, the LDS Newsroom posted an announcement that Church officials are involved in talks with Chinese government officials in an effort to “regularize” church functions in China. The following essay from our Fall…

What The Church Means To People Like Me

by Richard D. Poll Originally published in Winter 1967 A natural reaction to my title—since this is not a testimony meeting in which each speaker is his own subject—might be, “Who cares?” For who in…

About My Conversion: Directions to a Nonbeliever

by Anne Elizabeth Berbert Originally published in Fall/Winter 2001 Run your finger across the arc of my cheekbone. Notice how it curves like the hull of Noah’s ark that propelled life through earth’s watery death.…

The Gift

by Levi S. Peterson Originally published in Summer 1982 On a snowy evening, Gerard de Valois stepped from a tram near Quai Marcellis in the Belgian city of Liege. He positioned his hat more firmly,…