Winter 1967
Dialogue 2.4 (Winter 1967): 19–40
In this historical analysis, Mauss argues that starting in the 1850s, the church started to deny priesthood and temple blessings to anyone who had even a trace of African ancestry.
The frontier experience of early pioneers is history; even the friendly small town atmosphere enjoyed by their children is all but gone. Today most people live in an “organizational society.” In every field modern culture…
DIALOGUE: On Monday, November 27, 1967, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City presented a number of documents to President N. Eldon Tanner of the First Presidency, who accepted them on behalf of…
Dear Sirs: Re: Secretary Udall’s letter The Lord has not spoken, The Prophet is silent, And so am I. Alexander T. Stecker Belmont, Massachusetts *** Dear Sirs: You wanted a Dialogue—so now you have a dialogue;…
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. Robert Louis Stevenson As is all too evident from the newspapers, we are again approaching that quadrennial time when nominations for the…
In writing a comment of this sort, one runs the risk of having it construed as a boorish intrusion into a private argument among gentlemen; and the only excuse I can offer is that a…
Although the fundamentals of Mormon thought were quite firmly established in the Church’s first generation, it was the second generation which pulled the philosophical and theological strands together. It was the intellectual leaders of this…
The best of words, like the best of men, may suffer the woes of slander. Such a word is “criticism,” and such a man was Socrates. Socrates, though slandered and finally slain, achieved a lasting…
Mahlzeiten is one of Germany’s most discussed current films, and one which will be of special interest to Latter-day Saints. The plot could be reduced to sound like a sensational nineteenth-century thriller: a young married…
Among Mormon leaders of the past generation few were as charismatic as Melvin J. Ballard and B. H. Roberts. Both, in different ways, were significant in the shaping of twentieth-century Mormonism. Both deserve solid biographies.…
If you think you don’t like poetry, be prepared for a surprise when you pick up Carol Lynn Pearson’s new book, Beginnings. I have yet to talk to a person who was not impressed with…
The publishers of The Valley of Tomorrow and Strangers on Earth are moving to fill a very real need for suitable reading for young adults. Most books for younger readers are appropriate for all children,…
A natural reaction to my title—since this is not a testimony meeting in which each speaker is his own subject—might be, “Who cares?” For who in this congregation, with the possible exception of my brother,…
