Dialogue 54.4 (Winter 2021): 1–33
Despite its alleged antiquity, jutting back centuries before the Common Era, and its predominant setting in the Americas, the Book of Mormon contains several Matthean and Lukan additions to […]
It takes about an hour to travel from the Mormon church in Johannesburg to the one in Soweto. And those sixty minutes present an open window on the world of difference between “black” South Africa […]
[…] that knowledge. Those who are more traditional and conservative (certainly the majority) may sympathize with that frustration, but they are also of the view that we simply do not know any-thing about Her beyond […]
[…] the room, golden as plates. They don’t keep me awake. They never have. They also don’t say anything. The only sounds they make are indistinct whispers, strange susurrations. If they are messengers from God, […]
[…] on the Big Island. She had discovered faithless Milton in flagrante delicto with a charming French girl —long legged and twenty-something—whom Sue had been foolish enough to hire for some light cleaning and miscellaneous […]
[…] boy even if it is, technically, as much a duty of a deacon as passing the sacrament —and I doubted anyone in my presidency ever did it when they were twelve either. Certainly, the […]
[…] this one on faith,” said Lloyd. Dennis had hoped his colleague wouldn’t say that. Dennis was young —forty-seven—and he wasn’t from The Corridor, that religio-cultural stretch from Colonial Juarez, Mexico through Utah and Idaho […]
[…] paper and placed on the altar. The others who came later that day would pour their faith —no matter how strong or wavering—into a plea to God to help the people who are named. […]
[…] I can’t smell, she says. No, ª agrees. Smelling means taking in bits and letting them give you messages. We don’t have that here. ● looks around. This is probably still her street, but […]
-0- The grizzly, white-bearded weaver was as silent as the shadow of a ring-tailed civet cat —“reserved,” the folks in Pleasant Grove called the Russian. He did capable work making small throw rugs on […]