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Volume 51, No. 2

Summer 2018

The Summer 2018 issue continues Roger Terry’s important series on “Authority and Priesthood in the LDS Church, Part 2.” Brian Birch considers “A Portion of God’s Light: Mormonism and Religious Pluralism.” And Kim Abunuwara will look at the “Provo Tabernacle and Interfaith Cooperation.” The issue has some enviormental flavor with a review of George Handley’s new novel American Fork as well as Steven Peck’s beautiful homage to his mother interspersed with descriptions of the recent solar eclipse. Plus a lovely memorial to longtime Dialogue author Neil Longo. And so much more!

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Contents

Articles/Essays

Authority and Priesthood in the LDS Church, Part 2: Ordinances, Quorums, Nonpriesthood Authority, Presiding, Priestesses, and Priesthood Bans



Dialogue 51.1 (Spring 2018): 167–180
In the prequel to this article, I discussed in general contours the dual nature of authority—individual and institutional—and how the modern LDS concept of priesthood differs significantly from the ancient version in that it has become an abstract form of authority that can be “held” (or withheld, as the case might be).



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Fiction

City of Saints



When Dennis Cormier arrived on the fifteenth floor of the Church Office Building in downtown Salt Lake City, his first appointment was already waiting. The visitor was fleshy, jowls and hips, about Dennis’ age, and…



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Light Departure



For Doug Thayer  There was a knock at the apartment door. My companion, Carr, slouched at his desk, tinkering with a delicate butterfly he’d just formed from a piece of thin copper wire he’d retrieved…



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Personal Voices

Poetry

Reviews

Sermon

Volume Art