Volume 26, No. 3
Fall 1993
Contents
Articles/Essays
You Are Not Alone: A Plea for Understanding the Homosexual Condition
T. J. OBrienDialogue 26.3 (Fall 1993): 119–140
In fall 1993, TJ O’Brian wrote, “You are Not Alone: A Please for Understanding the Homosexual Condition.” O’Brian was a gay man and this esay addresses how church members should treat LGBT members. He points to Jan Stout’s article among other influential pieces that were beginning to soften LDS attitudes and change practices in the early 90s. But he also notes several examples of terrible things that LDS members were still saying and doing, not including an imfamous homophobic rant from Orson Scott Card in Sunstone magazine in 1990.
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Apologetic and Critical Assumptions About Book of Mormon Historicity
Brent Lee MetcalfeDialogue 26.3 (Summer 1995):163–180
FOR TRADITION-MINDED MEMBERS of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints the Book of Mormon’s historicity is a given: Book of Mormon events actually occurred and its ancient participants existed in ancient history
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Fiction
Gifts of the Spirit
Michael FillerupBrother Rice, the first counselor, says the bishop thinks the young people might be more responsive to someone who, oh, speaks a little more their language. Then he smiles, hands me the Sunday school manual,…
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Notes
Poetry
Lancashire Saint Dies
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