Winter 1990
The Winter 1990 Issue examines diverse theological, social, and personal issues within and around the Mormon Church. Blake T. Ostler explores the concept of grace in Christian theology, while Velia Neil Evans advocates for the rights of Mormon women to engage in wage work. Eugene England reflects on masculinity in the context of the Melchizedek priesthood, and Lavina Fielding Anderson critiques structural inequities in religious practice. Michael W. Homer delves into Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s involvement with spiritualism and its connection to emerging religious movements. Marge Whitman shares insights on coping with cancer, emphasizing the need for support amidst fear and suffering. In the "Personal Voices" section, Todd Marley offers a Christmas reflection, and David L. Wright’s fictional piece, "Of Pleasures and Palaces," explores themes of fulfillment and human experience.
The concept of grace and its relation to individual salvation is prob ably the most debated issue in the history of Christian thought. The list of combatants is virtually a Who’s Who in Christian thought:…
Dialogue 23.4 (Winter 1990): 47–82
In this essay, I will analyze recent Church discourse against a pattern of constricting employment options for women and will discuss the implications of that pattern.
On 27 July 1989, in the middle of the night, two people stopped their truck on our street, watched until they thought we were in bed, then ran across our front yard, threw a grenade-sized…
Dialogue 23.4 (Winter 1990): 83–96
This essay explores some of the strengths of deliberately choosing
to relate to our world with gender-inclusive language in three areas
It has been observed that “many who look to Sherlock Holmes as the supreme literary spokesman for rationalism feel dismay and bewilderment about his creator having become a leading champion of a doctrine that seems…
Fear, suffering, and a need for support are part of the experience of every person with cancer, but people are often uncomfortable with and shy away from these human emotions, which seem like admissions of…
(1961) I sat waiting in the downstairs living room in the “House of Happiness” where only a correct, efficient, middle-aged nurse interrupted a grueling aura of lost wills, defeated pluck. The inmates, whose residence in…
One of the kids was sick, so his ex came over.
“How are you doing?” she said.
(That’s what she always said.)
“Walk,” scold your doctors, but you snort
that it will take a cold day in hell
to make you shuffle from room to room
like some old man. So here I am,
When the arduous season conies, again,
unexpectedly, air rushes through
needled trees causing a sudden
shift of time, a shift of light:
Three of them are older. None
Grew bold enough in tone and manner
To carry her executive airs.
After your letter, I hoped to translate,
if I could, apples and bread into dark open streets.
That girl in Heidelberg drew a black line,
white paper against the shed door,
Disparate voices of contemporary short story writers, among them Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Raymond Carver, Louise Erdrich, and even Mormon author Linda Sillitoe, all use external situations to probe the inner life of characters. All…
A clergyman visiting Salt Lake City was invited to the Tabernacle where Heber C. Kimball addressed the congregation. The minister was so disturbed by Kimball’s impish and impious ways that had his own family been…
Linda Sillitoe is a powerful wielder of the story writer’s craft. In the stories at hand, her plots are organic, her sentences are flexible and lucid, and her metaphors convey a kinetic motion. Over and…
The writers of these books, with painstaking research, have produced studies that may help the present generation understand American history and culture just as Perry Miller and Henry Nash Smith aided understanding a generation ago. …
In a couple of weeks, I’ll pack up my truck and with my roommate head for Utah. We’ll be there the week before Christmas, skiing and visiting friends and family. We both bought new skis…
