[…] by the rite of her father’s religion, Lutheranism. When she was six, her parents moved to Long Beach, California, where she lived until she came to BYU at eighteen. In Long Beach, she attended […]
[…] the answer, is adjacent to the title of this novel, a line from Matthew Arnold’s poem, “Dover Beach”: “for the world, which seems / To lie before us like a land of dreams, / […]
[…] Portland, Oregon area, and while walking on trails from waterfall to waterfall or while standing on the beach observing the Pacific Ocean my heart rejoiced in the glory of God’s handiwork. But there are […]
[…] yet. As I was preparing to write this review, I spent a Sunday morning walking on the beach with a friend who is also the leader of Equality Utah—a gay Mormon man—an icon, really—who […]
[…] don’t you come back with me to California for a visit? We’ll go to Disneyland and the beach and even Hollywood.” “You don’t know your dad.” “Just tell him I asked you and you’re […]
Di alogue 26.3 (Fall 1993): 119–140
In fall 1993, TJ O’Brian wrote, “You are Not Alone: A Please for Understanding the Homosexual Condition.” O’Brian was a gay man and this esay addresses how church members […]
[…] (as well as other racial minorities). I can remember clenching my fists on a street in Long Beach, California, when as a teenager I observed a Black man and white woman walking toward me […]
[…] substance that comes and stays and accumulates, the way sand keeps migrating to the corners of a beach house floor until it is swept up. Darkness can’t be swept away. It is meant to […]
Di alogue 50.2 (Summer 2017):55–88
Maintaining a conviction of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon is no easy task in the era of DNA studies, archaeological excavations, and aggressive attacks by evangelical Protestants. Latter-day […]
Di alogue 30.3 (Fall 1999):90–103
To average LDS church members in 1909, Roberts’s New Witnesses for God substantiated their beliefs and further embellished his stature for them as a historian and defender of the Book […]