Fall 1974
The Fall 1974 Issue opens with Robert A. Rees discussing the potential of dialogue in fostering understanding. Following this, the "Letters to the Editor" section invites readers' reflections. Various authors, including Stephen and Kathy Snow, Dow Woodward, Norm L. Eatough, and Duane E. Jeffrey, contribute essays that explore themes such as belief and the intersection of science and religion, particularly around evolution. Thomas D. Schwartz examines the presence of violence in the poetry of Clinton F. Larsen in Sacrament of Terror. In the "From the Pulpit" section, Stephen L. Tanner discusses the concept of spiritual empiricism, emphasizing faith and personal experience. The poetry section includes Linda Sillitoe's Waiting for Lightning, while the "Personal Voices" section features narratives by Eugene England, Edward Geary, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and Elizabeth Fletcher Crook, each sharing personal reflections on everyday life, spiritual moments, and navigating between different worlds. And many reviews!
In a remarkable essay entitled “Beyond Politics” in a recent issue of BYU Studies, Hugh Nibley makes an exciting observation: God not only desires a free discussion with men, He encourages it. Further, it is an essential part of His modus operandi for our return to His presence.
Dialogue 9.3 (1974): 21–37
Duane Jeffrey is to be thanked for his article, “Seers, Savants and Evolution: The Uncomfortable Interface.” It is an excellent summary of the history of thought on evolution in the Church. To illustrate its power, it made us very carefully reconsider our own anti-evolution bias and again perceive evolution as a possibility.
Dr. Clinton F. Larson has been acclaimed as a Mormon poet, even as the first Mormon poet. In his review of The Lord of Experience Professor John B. Harris seems to have represented many of…
The materials reviewed in this bibliography are books—new and reprint—published since the last book list appeared in the Autumn/Winter 1973 issue of Dialogue. This is a selected listing excluding some of the publications well advertised in Church publications or available through ward “bookstores.” The selection is made solely upon the editor’s discretion and subject to his foibles.
At various times I have heard and read, with mild curiosity, of the anointing of animals by the power of the priesthood in pioneer times, but it wasn’t until I found myself with my own hands placed in blessing on the hood of my Chevrolet that I really felt what that experience meant to those early Saints, who depended on their animals, as we do our cars, for quite crucial things.
A few months ago, the First Presidency issued a letter to be read in Sacrament Meetings encouraging Church members to tidy up their homes and yards. It is an old story. Brigham Young preached the…
My Grandpa Thatcher told two kinds of stories—real life tales of the Old West and Bible stories. I sat politely through the latter so as not to hurt his feelings, but what I really wanted…
I really did not start out from age twelve to get a Ph.D. In fact, when I applied to college, I was seriously thinking of majoring in modern dance. I guess the turning point came…
Again I am the child hunched into a tense ball
in bed on Christmas morning,
breathless with frogs trampolining
my stomach, for the house to wake,
the curtained French doors to break
open on a storybook scene—and the Doll
“No one is any longer in the position to write a life of Jesus,” begins Gunther Bornkamm in his own reconstruction of Jesus’ life and thought.[1] Such a categorical statement may be discouraging to the…
In scholarly terms I cannot improve on Kenneth E. Bouldmg’s superb review of Population Resources and the Future (Dialogue, 8 [Autumn/Winter 1973], 159- 163). However, I feel that I can face the issue more squarely…
Personal narratives of religious history and emigration have always been too few, commonly because ordinary people seldom undertake systematic writing. Mormons, however, were enjoined to record their experiences and great numbers of them did so;…
As first written, this was an “I’ve got a secret” manuscript, of the type which causes my blood pressure to rise alarmingly. The secret was that while it was a novel about Edward Partridge, first…
What is the most important ingredient of religious conviction? This question, whether consciously posed or not, is a fundamental one for anyone who has tried to cultivate religious faith. We admire men and women of…
