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A claim is frequently made that science and religion are not incompatible. The contention is that science and religion can be made to co-exist by compartmentalization, that is, by carefully limiting the scope of each so that neither intrudeson the sphere of influence of the other. Such an approach is folly.

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Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Paul the Apostle These words are an obvious place to begin to consider the possibilities of dialogue about a Christian religion and its cultural heritage. The…

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Although it has been over five years since I received the first issue of Dialogue, I vividly remember the excitement with which I opened it and devoured it in one sitting. I suddenly felt a renewal of faith in myself and in my fellow saints. I discovered that there were Mormons who shared not only my concern for the life of the mind in the Church, but who also shared some of my deepest feelings about the life of the spirit in the world, who seemed unafraid to think, to explore, to question—and unembarrassed to fast, to pray, and to testify. 

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Dialogue 8.3/4 (1973): 109–126
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Dialogue 8.3/4 (1973): 99–108
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Dialogue 9.3 (1974): 21–37
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“Cooperating in Works of the Spirit”: Notes Toward a Higher Dialogue

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Dialogue 14.4 (Winter 1981): 28–39
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Letter to the Editor: Reading Scripture

Letter to the Editor: Brother, Can You Spare a Book?

Letter to the Editor: Bender Responds

Letter to the Editor: A Postapocalyptic Perspective?

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Letters to the Editor

Dear Sirs:  I am enclosing a check for $20.00 as a donation to Dialogue. I sincerely appreciate the efforts which have been made by the Dialogue staff to present such stimulating material.  I will do…

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Dear Sirs:  We enjoyed your recent satire on provincial Mormonism (published as a review of The Graduate by one Rustin Kaufman). H. L. Mencken could not have inserted the knife more deftly. It takes an…

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In this important historical letter, Stewart Udall reflects on the need for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints  to reconsider its historical stance on race, particularly its practice of denying full fellowship to Black individuals. Udall argues that this practice, rooted in the belief in a divine curse on Black people, contradicts the principles of equality and brotherhood that the Church should embody. He concludes asserting that the time has come for the Church to abandon its racial restrictions and embrace full fellowship with Black individuals. He argues that recognizing the worth of all people, irrespective of race, is essential for the Church to fulfill its spiritual and moral ideals and to contribute positively to society’s progress toward greater human brotherhood.

Dialogue and the Daring Disciple

One thing a reader learns from Terryl Givens’s new biography is that no one who knew Eugene England could claim to be an objective appraiser of his life. Countless individuals revered him; he had guided…

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The attacks of September 11, 2001 are a spectacular reminder that the struggle between religion and politics is alive and well in the twenty-first century. Eugene England’s life, which ended just weeks before those attacks,…

Letters to the Editor

Dear Sirs: 

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Women in Dialogue

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An Open Letter to Prospective Fiction Contributors

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Dialogue 36.1 (2003): 89–108
A claim is frequently made that science and religion are not incompatible. The contention is that science and religion can be made to co-exist by compartmentalization, that is, by carefully limiting the scope of each so that neither intrudeson the sphere of influence of the other. Such an approach is folly.

The Possibility of Dialogue: A Personal View

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Paul the Apostle These words are an obvious place to begin to consider the possibilities of dialogue about a Christian religion and its cultural heritage. The…

Dialogue East | Courage: A Journal of History, Thought, and Action

In the spring of 1970, with the biennial world conference of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints approaching, an acute polarization of theological positions and emotional sets seemed to have occurred in the movement over the identity, the character, and the mission of the (RLDS) church.

A Progress Report on Dialogue

With Dialogue in its sixth year, it seems appropriate to report to you, our faithful readers, on the progress and problems of the journal. The initial response, demonstrated that Dialogue met a real need in…

A Continuing Dialogue

Although it has been over five years since I received the first issue of Dialogue, I vividly remember the excitement with which I opened it and devoured it in one sitting. I suddenly felt a renewal of faith in myself and in my fellow saints. I discovered that there were Mormons who shared not only my concern for the life of the mind in the Church, but who also shared some of my deepest feelings about the life of the spirit in the world, who seemed unafraid to think, to explore, to question—and unembarrassed to fast, to pray, and to testify. 

Dialogues on Science and Religion

Dialogue 8.3/4 (1973): 109–126
To answer that question we needed to create some instruments with which we could gather the data. We are currently engaged in that instrument-building phase. As one step in that process, we interviewed several well-established LDS academicians located at various institutions of higher education in the United States.

A Dialogue with Henry Eyring

Dialogue 8.3/4 (1973): 99–108
Over the years Henry Eyring’s status in the first rank of scientists has become secure. He has produced a staggering volume of research publications in the fields of his interests: application of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, radio￾activity, theory of reaction rates, theory of liquids, rheology, molecular biology, optical rotation, and theory of flame.

Seers, Savants and Evolution: A Continuing Dialogue

Dialogue 9.3 (1974): 21–37
Duane Jeffrey is to be thanked for his article, “Seers, Savants and Evolution: The Uncomfortable Interface.” It is an excellent summary of the history of thought on evolution in the Church. To illustrate its power, it made us very carefully reconsider our own anti-evolution bias and again perceive evolution as a possibility.

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In a remarkable essay entitled “Beyond Politics” in a recent issue of BYU Studies, Hugh Nibley makes an exciting observation: God not only desires a free discussion with men, He encourages it. Further, it is an essential part of His modus operandi for our return to His presence.

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Communication is a matter of infinite hope. It is the emotion we feel when we send these fragile words however tentatively or forcefully out to others. Even those who write secret diaries, shrouded in cryptic codes, or who shout anonymous messages on subway walls, or who carefully hide parchment and golden plates in caves to come forth several millennia later all do so with the same expectation: that someone, somewhere will read and understand. 

Ten Years with Dialogue: A Personal Anniversary

We looked a lot like the picture in the Dialogue logo, although, of course, we didn’t know it then. Gene and Charlotte England, Karl Keller and I were taking lunch on the lawn at the…

The Pink Dialogue and Beyond

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 history, I would have taken minutes or at least passed a roll around, but of course I didn’t.

Ongoing Dialogue

Since accepting the editorship of DIALOGUE last spring, we have had a num ber of close friends ask with an air of incredulity, “I think it’s wonderful, but why would you take on such an…

The Unfettered Faithful: An Analysis of the Dialogue Subscribers Survey

During the spring of 1984, the editors of DIALOGUE sent a short questionnaire to all of its then-2,300 subscribers plus 600 who had let their subscriptions lapse in the previous year. At that point, the journal had been edited in Salt Lake City for exactly two years.

“A Matter of Love”: My Life with Dialogue

God sometimes seems to me quite unreasonable. I’ve thought so especially at times when it appears that the one gift he has clearly given me, the gift of dialogue, is also a source of pain…

Dialogue’s Coming of Age

DIALOGUE: A JOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT begins both its twentieth volume and its twenty-first year with the publication of this issue. Launched in 1966 as a daring and earnest effort to transform the serious conversation of…

Monologues and Dialogues: A Personal Perspective

Engaging in dialogue is one of the first experiences we have as human beings. Even when our communication is only inarticulate gurgling, we are participating in some kind of communication. Entering into dialogue with another, whether human or divine, is one of the experiences we bring from the preexistence.

The Road to Dialogue: A Continuing Quest

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I could justly praise DIALOGUE for many qualities . But for the sake of brevity I will concentrate upon a single overriding virtue. DIALOGUE makes my religion interesting.  When I was a boy, I believed…

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While I was on my mission in France, I received number 1, volume 1 of a publication I had never heard of before—a chunky little journal in a bright blue cover called DIALOGUE. It was…

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Dialogue Toward Forgiveness: A Supporting View

Dialogue and Difference: “I and Thou” or “We and They”

Dialogue

A Dialogue Retrospective

A History of Dialogue, Part One: The Early Years, 1965-1971

Bearing Your Sanctimony: Monologues on Dialogue

A History of Dialogue, Part Two: Struggle Toward Maturity, 1971-1982

A History of Dialogue, Part Three: The Utah Experience, 1982-1989

Endowing the Olympic Masses: Light of the World

Spinning Gold: Mormonism and the Olympic Games

Science and Religion: A Dialogue: Response

Science and Religion: A Dialogue: What the Universe Means to People Like Me

Short Creek: A Refuge for the Saints

Dialogue 36.3 (Spring 2003): 71–87
Watson shares why early fundamentalists broke off from the main church  and decided to leave Utah and settle Short Creek.

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

An Open Letter to the Dialogue Board

Letter to the Editor

Editor’s Introduction: Celebrating Forty Years of Dialogue

Letters to the Editor

An Open Letter to Nathan Oman

A Lament

Famous Last Words, or Through the Correspondence Files

The Possibilities of Dialogue

Retrospection and Assessment

Letters to the Editor

“Lord, To Whom Shall We Go?” The Challenges of Discipleship and Church Membership

Personal Reflections on the Founding of Dialogue

A Forty-Year View: Dialogue and the Sober Lessons of History

The Founding and the Fortieth: Reflections on the Challenge of Editing and the Promise of Dialogue

Letter to the Editor

Maturing and Enduring: Dialogue and Its Readers after Forty Years

Letter to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

A Rigorous Examination

Appreciation for Dialogue

A Halfway Covenant?

Writing Awards for 2007

“Rising above Principle”: Ezra Taft Benson as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture 1953-61 Part 1

“The Grandest Principle of the Gospel”: Christian Nihilis Sanctified Activism and Eternal Progression

A History of Dialogue, Part Four: A Tale in Two Cities, 1987-92

Dialogue in Milan

What Is Dialogue’s Mission?

Best of Dialogue 2008 Awards

A Year of Dialogue: Thinking Myself into Mormonism

Writing Awards for 2009

Letter to the Editor

Why Nature Matters: A Special Issue of Dialogue on Mormonism and the Environment

Finding the Presence in Mormon History: An Interview with Susanna Morrill, Richard Lyman Bushman,and Robert Orsi

Nixon Was Wrong: Religion and the Presidency, 1960, 2008, and 2012— An Interview with Shaun A. Casey

Letter to the Editor: Reading Scripture

Letter to the Editor: Brother, Can You Spare a Book?

Letter to the Editor: Bender Responds

Letter to the Editor: A Postapocalyptic Perspective?

Errata

Letter to the Editor: “Apostates,” “Anti-Mormons,” and Other Problems in Seth Payne’s “Ex-Mormon Narratives and Pastoral Apologetics”

Letters to the Editor

Dear Sirs:  I am enclosing a check for $20.00 as a donation to Dialogue. I sincerely appreciate the efforts which have been made by the Dialogue staff to present such stimulating material.  I will do…

Letters to the Editor

Dear Sirs:  We enjoyed your recent satire on provincial Mormonism (published as a review of The Graduate by one Rustin Kaufman). H. L. Mencken could not have inserted the knife more deftly. It takes an…

Letters to the Editor

Dear Sirs:  Your poemed portraits proveth much(They prove both plus and minus) So let old Ernie have his view—Give deference to his highness.  Robert Baer El Cerrito, Calif.  *** Dear Sirs:  I have read with interest the…

Letters to the Editor

Dear Sirs:  As a Dialogue subscriber, I was recently favored with a letter from the “Lloyd for Congress Committee,” asking for a contribution to support a Dr. Kent Lloyd, Ph.D., who is running for Congress…

Letters to the Editor

Dear Sirs:  . . . . I borrowed the first two issues and have read each one with a great sense of gratitude. I knew it — I knew you were there somewhere, you people…

Letters to the Editor

Dear Sirs:  . . . . Dialogue can become a source of intellectual sastisfaction that will complement and augment the spiritual satisfaction abundantly provided by the Church. To become such a source it must be…

Letters to the Editor

Dear Sirs:  After Udall’s letter, what now? Despite the possible political implications of Stewart Udall’s letter, I hailed it as a welcome voice on a subject generally veiled in public silence. And yet after the…

Letters to the Editor

Dear Sirs:  I enjoyed William Robinson’s article [Autumn, 1968], “Mormons in the Urban Community.”  In order to expose our children to something other than our very isolated Mormon community (Utah Valley), two years ago we…

Letters to the Editor

The letters in this issue reflect accurately the relative quantity of letters received on the different subjects as well as the various points of view.  Dear Sirs:  I am much interested in the cover of…

Letters to the Editor

Dear Sirs:  . . . I could not agree more with the comments and views expressed by McMurrin and Bitton (Winter, 1967). I became an ardent admirer of B. H. Roberts from the moment when,…

Letters to the Editor

Dialogue 2.2 (Summer 1967): 5–7
In this important historical letter, Stewart Udall reflects on the need for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints  to reconsider its historical stance on race, particularly its practice of denying full fellowship to Black individuals. Udall argues that this practice, rooted in the belief in a divine curse on Black people, contradicts the principles of equality and brotherhood that the Church should embody. He concludes asserting that the time has come for the Church to abandon its racial restrictions and embrace full fellowship with Black individuals. He argues that recognizing the worth of all people, irrespective of race, is essential for the Church to fulfill its spiritual and moral ideals and to contribute positively to society’s progress toward greater human brotherhood.