Disorder and Early Joy
April 26, 2018A few months ago, the First Presidency issued a letter to be read in Sacrament Meetings encouraging Church members to tidy up their homes and yards. It is an old story. Brigham Young preached the…
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A Little Bit of Heaven
April 26, 2018My Grandpa Thatcher told two kinds of stories—real life tales of the Old West and Bible stories. I sat politely through the latter so as not to hurt his feelings, but what I really wanted…
Birth Control Among the Mormons: Introduction to an Insistent Question
April 26, 2018Dialogue 10.2 (Summer 1977): 12–46
The extensive national attention had a demonstrable impact in Utah. In 1876 the territory’s first anti-abortion law was enacted, carrying a penalty of two to ten years for performing an abortion; a woman convicted of having an abortion received one to five years “unless the same is necessary to preserve her life.” It was also during this period that one finds the first real discussion of fertility control by leading Mormons.
It Bears the Arrington Hallmark | Leonard J. Arrington, From Quaker to Latter-day Saint: Bishop Edwin D. Woolley
April 25, 2018From Quaker to Latter-day Saint is an unfortunate title. Neither interesting nor particularly descriptive, it combines with the design and size of the volume to suggest one of those wearying biographies of a minor figure…
Windmill Jousting and Other Madness: Century 2
April 25, 2018Jousting with windmills is a bit out of fashion nowadays, insanity even more so. But every now and then some glittering-eyed individual comes by with an idea most people do best to ignore.
I, Eye, Aye: A Personal Essay on Personal Essays
April 25, 2018In A Believing People, Richard Cracroft and Neal Lambert lament that the essay “has not been as vital a literary force in Mormondom as might be expected.” Early Mormons, they note, kept forceful diaries, wrote…
“I Sustain Him as a Prophet, I Love Him as an Affectionate Father”: An Interview with Edward L. Kimball
April 25, 2018In October 1978, Dialogue interviewed Edward L. Kimball, youngest son of President Spencer W. Kimball and co-author of the popular biography Spencer W. Kimball. Dr. Kimball is a law professor at Brigham Young University. Dialogue:…
Living with Opposition in All Things
April 24, 2018In a recent issue of Dialogue, Clifton Jolley described the personal essay as a good way to confront the “beast.” I usually confront the beast in the shower. It is not that it lurks there…
The Holding Forth of Jeddy Grant
April 24, 2018As the story goes, and as countless Mormon preachers and teachers have told it, embellished it and retold it for generations, it was a classic confrontation between a conspiracy of falsehood and the heroism of…
Dear Diary . . . | Elouise M. Bell, ed., Will I Ever Forget This Day? Excerpts from the Diaries of Carol Lynn Pearson
April 21, 2018That last bastion of privacy—our personal diaries—has now been turned into a “program.” From the pulpit, we are admonished to keep diaries; we are treated to snatches of personal diaries in sacrament meeting, we are…