Volume 50, No. 3

Fall 2017

Inside the Fall 2017 Issue you’ll find Benjamin Knoll and Jana Riess’s comprehensive look at “‘Infected With Doubt’: An Empirical Overview of Belief and Non-Belief in Contemporary American Mormonism” and Kristeen L. Black’s “A Capacious Priesthood and a Life of Holiness.” Neil Longo and Stephen Carter are Dialogue’s featured personal voices for fall. And it concludes with a beautiful sermon by Sariah Toronto on “The Song of the Righteous is a Prayer unto Me.” Plus brand new reviews, fiction, poetry and gorgeous art.

Articles/Essays

“Infected With Doubt”: An Empirical Overview of Belief and Non-Belief in Contemporary American Mormonism

Benjamin R. Knoll and Jana Riess

Mormons Probably Aren’t Materialists

Samuel M. Brown

A Capacious Priesthood and a Life of Holiness

Kristeen L. Black

Community of Christ: An American Progressive Christianity, with Mormonism as an Option

Chrystal Vanel

Dialogue 50.3 (Fall 2017): 89–115
I thus argue that Mormonism exists wherever there is belief in the Book of Mormon, even though many adherents reject the term “Mormonism” to distance themselves from the LDS Church headquartered in Salt Lake City.

The Pew

Alison Brimley

Helen realizes at church Sunday morning that still, after all these years, she does not have fond feelings for the chapel. She doesn’t want to hold on to any grudges against it—she doesn’t take it…

Duties of a Deacon

Theric Jepson

I never got to do it when I was a twelve-year-old Mormon boy even if it is, technically, as much a duty of a deacon as passing the sacrament—and I doubted anyone in my presidency…

Personal Voices: Three Sealings

Stephen Carter

My mother made spiral-bound books for the first few of her nine children: pastel-colored accounts (which she wrote, illustrated, and laminated) of how we had made our way from the spiritual realm to the mortal; how we became part of our eternal family, sealed together and destined for the celestial...

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