Dialogue Author on Proposition 8
August 18, 2010In the Winter 2009 issue of Dialogue, Robert K. Vischer and others contributed to a series of perspectives on Proposition 8 . In the August 13 edition of Commonweal, Vischer revisits some of the same…
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Sunstone Symposium begins in Salt Lake City
August 4, 2010The Sunstone Symposium begins August 4th, with a conversation between Jan Shipps and Jon Butler on “The Fate of New Religious Movements When They are No Longer New” at 8 p.m. at the Sheraton at…
The Original Length of the Scroll of Hôr
August 4, 2010Readers interested in the historical background of the paper and the current state of scholarship on the topic are encouraged to visit the FAIR Wiki on the Book of Abraham. Raw data tables for this…
The Weeping God of Mormonism
July 22, 2010by Eugene England Originally published in Spring 2002 Editor’s Note: July 22, 2010 would have been Eugene England’s 77th birthday. The Eugene England Foundation has launched a website, eugeneengland.org to make his work accessible to…
Eugene England Website Launched
July 22, 2010We are thrilled to announce a new online resource for the work of Dialogue’s founding editor, Eugene England. Below is the announcement from the Eugene England Foundation: On what would have been Eugene England’s 77th…
Scripture, History, and Faith: A Round Table Discussion
July 8, 2010by Todd Compton, Paul Edwards, Steve Epperson, Mark D. Thomas, Margaret Toscano, and David P. Wright Originally published in Winter 1996 Thomas: We live in a society that is increasingly secular and fragmented. Popular culture…
Getting Out/ Staying In: One Mormon/ Gay Marriage: Staying In
July 8, 2010by Ben Christensen Originally published in Fall 2005 I WROTE “GETTING OUT” as a somewhat naive twenty-four-year-old. Now I return, in theory a wise and mature twenty-five-year-old. Inevitably, I’ll find whatever I write here equally…
Blood Atonement and Capital Punishment in Mormon doctrine
June 22, 2010Mormonism and Capital Punishment: A Doctrinal Perspective, Past and Present by Marvin R. Gardner, originally published Spring 1979 ON JANUARY 17, 1977, Gary Mark Gilmore’s execution by a Utah firing squad ended an almost ten-year…
Salvation through a Tabernacle: Joseph Smith, Parley P. Pratt, and Early Mormon Theologies of Embodiment
June 8, 2010by Benjamin E. Park In his Socratic dialogue Phaedo, Plato offered a multi-layered argument for the immortality of the soul, claiming that the human spirit belonged with the Forms—that is, the highest and most fundamental…
Dialogue in Real Time
June 8, 2010From the very beginning, Dialogue was intended to be a way to get people talking about Mormonism in new ways. For many years, the Letters to the Editor were an important site of these conversations…