Volume 40, No. 1
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.
Contents
Articles/Essays
The 1948 Secret Marriage of Louis J. Barlow: Origins of FLDS Placement Marriage
Marianne T. WatsonDialogue 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.
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Fiction
The Nature of Comets
Sigrid OlsenWe 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…
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Where We Lay Our Scene
S. P. BaileyHer 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…
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