Dialogue 20 .4 (Winter 1987): 77–85
When Joseph Smith III preached his first sermon as a leader of the Reoganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at Amboy, Illinois, on 6 April […]
Dialogue 14 .4 (Winter 1981): 28–39
Some time in June 1970,I invited a few friends to my house to chat about the then emerging women’s movement. If I had known we were about to make […]
Dialogue 25 .2 (Fall 1992): 75–96
The personal essay, unlike personal journals, letters, and oral histories, is not an artless form. It transforms the raw material of personal experience in the double crucible of carefully […]
[…] slap. Clair ducked behind the steps as Brother Pratt walked toward the dance. He called back, “Courtship’s over, Sofie. I’ll tell your pa when I see him in the field.” She waited for Sofie […]
[…] ice cream cone while folding laundry. Her knees were drawn up to her chest, her nightgown taut over her knees, like a little girl at a slumber party. She looked so perfect and unblemished […]
[…] And for weeks now, every time Latham passed Erval in the church hallway, every time he went over to Erval’s house, his good buddy joked with him, “Watch out, Latham. You’re next.” “Don’t plan […]
[…] home?” “Yes.” “Telegram,” he said. I walked back through the house to the kitchen. Mother was standing over the sink, washing the lunch dishes. “I thought you’d gone back to school,” she said. “Hurry […]
[…] bishops served in relation to the entire Church population is small. It is difficult to assess the overall impact upon the Church by this and other agencies without an extensive evaluation of their programs […]
[…] and writes the Church’s history partly for its intrinsic interest but also as an act of self-disc overy. We are more distant from Joseph and the foundations of the Church, but the Kingdom is […]
[…] and soon rose to above 5000. Since that time, subscriptions have fluctuated between 5200 and 6400, with over-the-counter sales adding an additional average circulation of 750. Eighty percent of the present subscribers are renewals. […]