Spring 2007
The Spring 2007 issue begins with "The Theology of Desire, Part 1" by Cetti Cherniak, which takes a look at sexuality and sexual expression from within the church, as well as theological and doctrinal versus social and cultural expectations. This is followed by William P. MacKinnon and his comprehensive look at the Utah War and it's legacy given sesquicentennial commemoration of the event. After this is a look at the FLDS and Louis J. Barlow, specifically their practice of arranged marriages, or "placement marriage" as they referred to it. Also included in this issue are several works of fiction and poetry, and a large selection of reviews.
A friend who is a soprano once related a story to me of a rime when she was accompanied by a male pianist. They worked together on the piece for some weeks; and finally, when they performed, the ecstatic release, the sense of the flowing together of their spirits, was, in her words, “like making love.”
With the Utah War’s sesquicentennial commemoration now underway, it is appropriate to reexamine that campaign’s origins, conduct, significance, and historiography. This article’s purpose is to stimulate such probing. I hope to do so through the story of my own research and conclusions about the war over the past half-century—one-third of the period since President James Buchanan and Governor Brigham Young came into armed conflict during 1857-58.
Dialogue 40.1 (Spring 2007): 83–136
Watson explains how the secret marriage of Louis J. Barlow to a 15-year-old girl caused a major rift among fundamentalists. Today’s fundamentalist members are still experiencing the effects of that marriage.
We found the remains just below the embankment of an antediluvian oxbow. She had been lying there a long time, before the Cayuse and Lewis and Clark and the Grand Coulee Dam and long before…
Her ticket is at will-call. She needs no help finding their seats, but Tom repeatedly cranes his neck to check the doors at the back of the hall. He likes it when she emerges from…
Susan Lee Anderson, Appreciation for Frances Menlove
Tom Rogers, An Issue Reflecting Balance
LaVal W. Spencer, Kirk Hagen’s Accomplishment
David O. Tolman, Natural vs. Supernatural
William D. Russell, What Is FARMS Afraid Of?
Mark Ashurst-McGee, Ashurst-McGee Replies to Vogel
Ralph Hansen, A Founder Bows Out
October 1954. I am age nineteen and in Clark’s Barbershop with Lloyd for his weekly duck’s butt haircut. He’s reading the Salt Lake Tribune and 1 am turning magazine pages. A coupon says, “Play a guitar in six weeks.” I nudge Lloyd, “My convertible needs a guitar player.”
On this year’s Christmas letter to friends and family, I left out the fact that our two sons have joined another church. I prefer to avoid receiving sympathetic messages such as, “Don’t be upset. The…
The sand that blows along the bed
of the Amargosa waves and shirrs
and cleans as well as water. It scours
the tatters left uneaten by birds,
flung unsifted from bluest above
snow casts light on me in sparks
Behold all ye that kindle fire
That compass yourselves about with sparks
my mother is madly licking
at the languid red peach,
screaming at life and
the rust crush of death.
As morning breaks, our daughter,
wearing her best blue dress, is too excited to eat.
The wasted Cheerios bob like buoys in her bowl.
In the simmer and slow furnace
of morning, the ball sits on the ground
rotund as pomegranate, a misshapen
I have awakened him from a deep sleep
slumped over in his blue vinyl and chrome wheelchair
and wrenched him from a scene
of young riders and sweating horses
In the spirit of Eugene England, I would like this review to read something like a personal essay. So I’ll start with something personal. I’m writing this review for two important reasons, one noble, and…
Richard Dutcher, the founding father of Mormon cinema, has much to be proud of in his third film, God’s Army 2: States of Grace. His first effort, God’s Army, was a missionary bildungsroman with a…
Historian Carol Cornwall Madsen has penned what is, remarkably, the first rigorous biography of one of the most influential Mormon woman of the nineteenth century. Emmeline B. Wells served as editor of the Woman’s Exponent…
It would be difficult for me to overstate the influence that Levi Peterson has had on both my spiritual and my intellectual development, “The Confessions of St. Augustine,” which I found by accident a few…
Vickie Speek is a fifth-generation Mormon whose progenitors were pioneers in Idaho. An award-winning journalist, she received the Award of Excellence from the Illinois Historical Society in 2001 for her research on the Civil War.…
Born in upstate New York, Dianne Dibb Forbis received a B A. in Art from BYU. Currently residing in Orem, Utah, she has three daughters and twelve grandchildren. For twenty years she had full and…
