[…] and on earth peace, good will toward men. Millions of Mormons and a billion-plus Christians around the world will read or hear or act out these verses in the coming days. They have done […]
[…] facts. Here is encouraging commentary offered by Petersen in Chapter 5: Souls in Transition provides abundant good news about LDS youth. Mormons had a higher retention rate than any other denomination as young people […]
[…] it has been since 1966. Relevant, humane, thought-provoking, and forward-looking. That’s why I love Dialogue. In a world overloaded with blogs and tweets and memes, isn’t it nice to slow down and read something […]
[…] loosely. The opening chapters of Son constitute a highly effective and minimally derivative re-imagining of the heroic world of Beowulf. There is a beleaguered land, ravaged by the incursions of a beast whose name identifies […]
[…] environments shape the way Latter-day Saints understand their common religion. The first part of the book, “Other Worlds,” sets Mormonism in science-fiction contexts, always asking, “what would the Church be like in a different […]
[…] For example, in “The Price of Ties,” one character says, “Believing isn’t the easiest thing in the world” (31), and we believe her. These characters’ faith or lack thereof comes across as simply one […]
[…] published collection Just Seeing. The quality of this work causes me to hope that it will be read beyond his family circle, extending even into a second volume, perhaps entitled Just Saying.
[…] Peck. Dialogue, Summer 2017 (50:2). When I was growing up, comic strips provided part of the ontology of my world. I devoured regular comic books, graphic novels, and other bubble-voiced media, but comic strips played a […]
[…] Contact for our son, Christian. I was immediately sorry 1985: Linda Wilcox, “Crying Change in a Permanent World,” Dialogue 18.2 (Summer 1985): 116 – 127. Women in the Mormon Church are encouraged toward traditional […]
[…] Faith, and the Temple in 2019” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 52 No. 1(2019): 169–178. Young shares her testimony of temple work even though she found some wording in the endowment ceremony sexist. […]