Summer 1973
In the Summer 1973 Issue, John Sorenson explores the relationship between Mormon worldviews and American culture, while Mark Leone discusses the principles that led to the demolition of the Coalville Tabernacle, offering insights into Mormon architectural principles. Michael Coe provides an outsider's perspective on Mormons and archaeology, and Dee Green reflects on the evolving approach to Mormon archaeology in the 1970s. In the literary section, Edward Geary offers a reflective piece titled Goodbye to Poplarhaven, and Eileen Kump contributes a short story called The Willows. The poetry section features works by Linda Sillitoe, Dennis Clark, and Bruce Jorgensen, with themes of nature and personal reflection, such as The Buffalo and the Dentist, Meadow, and Near an Abandoned Canal Bridge in Southern Utah. In the "From the Pulpit" section, Frank L. Odd discusses the theme of spiritual response, drawing parallels between Mary's response to divine calling and his own. And more!
This issue of Dialogue emphasizes the relationship between Mormonism and American culture. John Sorenson’s lead article on “Mormon World View and American Culture” sets the stage by attempting to make a distinction between the gospel…
Neither the scholars nor the Mormons themselves have been able to come to agreement about the relationship between the life of the LDS people in this country and American lifeways. The views of outside observers…
Mormonism has been subject to rapid renovation since its founding. The Prophet Joseph made it quite clear that God’s revelations were continual and that if things were withheld for the moment, it was because His…
“Mormonism” must surely be the only major religious movement whose founder was fascinated by archaeology and whose members are imbued with a mystique based upon archaeological findings.[1] Because of this element of faith, scientists who are not Mormons have…
Both within and without the LDS Church Latter-day Saint archaeologists traditionally have been regarded as scriptural archaeologists. Although this was prob ably accurate through the 1950s, in the past decade a new generation of Mormon…
Paradise lost, according to Marcel Proust, is the only real paradise. Proust’s lost Eden was Illiers-Combray, a village whose medieval church tower and encircling wall gave to his childhood, by their great age, a sense…
Amy was a child when Congress passed the Edmunds Bill, assuring the end of polygamous living in Utah, but she was old enough to know that Aunt Edna was not her aunt at all but…
Many of the recent writings about society and its problems reveal heightened awareness concerning the impact of the future upon man. According to the “experts,” the steadily accelerating speed of change will be so great that man will become, and is perhaps now, a victim of something akin to culture shock.
The British education system is organized in such a way that only 22% of each yearly batch of graduates are able to obtain a place in higher education (8% at Universities—the rest in Colleges of Education and Polytechnics). This means that higher education is effectively reserved for an elite compared to the wider intake of the U.S.A. and many other countries.
Frontier Village, restored and furnished
with relics of ancestral time
includes live anachronisms.
So we saunter to see the buffalo, laughing,
swinging up between corral boards
and nearly boot it in the rump as we demand,
“Where’s the buffalo?—oh!”
(to my daughter—in explanation of her name)
Balance is what we mean the name
to tell her when she’s suckled news
into her brain that birth knits her
into the nervous system of
the spastic, plastic planet,
Infinite distance: old conceit.
These hills bound sight, define the length
Our fathers, innocent of defeat,
Might seed their strength.
Dear Editors:
As a longtime Dialogue fan, I feel prompted to voice my expression of support for the continued publication of this vitally important and necessary journal.
I consider myself an active and devoted member of the Church. But like so many others these days, I have had my problems reconciling conscience with certain Church policies.
The Joy of Being a Woman, a feminine companion to Win If You Will by Paul H. Dunn, could undoubtedly be used for illustrating talks and Relief Society lessons dutifully woven to bind sisters tightly…
Charles Peterson is a man of history who, like a sociologist, examines the changing aspirations and problems of the Mormons who lived along the Little Colorado during the latter part of the nineteenth century. I…
Chloe is the last and one of the most evocative of Eric Rohmer’s “Six Moral Tales.” The previous stories include La Collectioneuse, My Night at Maud’s, Clair’s Knee, and two shorter works for television. These…
At the time that Costa-Gavras’ new film, A State of Siege was cancelled at the American Film Institute’s inaugural festival at its new movie theater in Washington’s Kennedy Center, it was described as “rationalizing political…
These twelve essays are dedicated to the memory of the late B. West Belnap of Brigham Young University. Most of the writers have been or are associated with the College of Religious Instruction at Brigham…
Here is yet another novel about the sensitive and soul-torn nineteenth century Mormon woman, another proclamation that if it took men to match our mountains, it was only because both had been long overmatched by…
There are beautiful pictures in this book. Some, like the take of Monte Alban at dawn, are works of art. The volume could make a valuable gift or an adequate addition to a photographical library.…
The literature surveyed for this quarter’s bibliographical essay is from periodicals. Even the casual reader of this impressive list of recent works will notice that a high proportion of the reviewed literature concerns the “World Church.” From India to England, Tin Can Island to Finland, South Africa to Central America the Ensign and other journals report on the activities of the Church and present (albeit often superficially) introductions to the cultures of these lands.
At Christmas time I like to read the Gospels again. Partly out of tradition, no doubt, and the love of tradition. For in tradition lies much of the special charm and cheer of holidays. But…
