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Letters to the Editor

Advice to Book Reviewers

Recently I came across a book published in 1927 by Knopf entitled Book Reviewing. In it Wayne Gard writes that a “review must be presented in non-technical, natural language, combining brevity with wit, so that…

God, Gold, and Newsprint | Monte Burr McLaws, Spokesman for the Kingdom: Early Mormon Journalism and the Deseret News, 1830–1898

Expanded from Monte McLaws’ doctoral dissertation, Spokesman for the Kingdom is a terse, well-researched biography of the Deseret News and Mormon journalism from 1830 to 1898. The book is thematically organized around the topics of…

Writing: An Act of Responsibility

Should Mormon Women Speak Out? Thoughts on Our Place in the World

What I Would Be If I Weren’t A Mormon

The Goodness of the Church

Driving to Heaven

Love Your Elders

Appreciation for Wayne Booth

A Reasoned Discussion

Reply to Schow’s Reply

The Lesson of Noah’s Flood

Obliged to Believe about Noah

Sharing a Poem

In Memory of Dr. Bill

“The Day Not to Be Forgotten”: How I Learned What Happened in Tian’anmen Square

Praise

Dialogue in Milan

Patrick Mason Regretfully Resigns

What Is Dialogue’s Mission?

Left Me Baffled

The Only Reason to Marry?

Scriptural Rebuttal to Muhlestein

Post-Manifesto Marriages

What Is a Revival?

Faithful Historian Responds

A Call for Compassion

Clarifying My Own Stance

Kevin Barney Responds

Dialogue 42.2 (Summer 2009): xiii–iixx
The truth is that the winners get to write the history, and itwas those who rejected Asherahwho largely redacted or wrote the Old Testament as we have ittoday. There is, quite frankly, alot of political spin in the OldTestament. I recognize that weget really nervous when we starttalking about spin in the scrip-tures. So I do not blame anyone,including you, for not wanting to follow me there.

Asherah Alert

Dialogue 42.2 (Summer 2009): ix-xii
But when it comes to pegging Asherah as our Heavenly Mother, there are many problems which must be overcome, and Kevin Barney falls short of doing so. Barney’s proposition is that the early worship form of venerating Asherah is more valid than the later, more evolved form of monotheism.

Rest of the Story

Letter

Unapproachable Nature

George Smith Responds

René Girard and Mormon Scripture: A Response

Road Trip: The Strange Travels of Mark Sanford and Brigham Young

Terryl Givens and the Shape of Mormon Studies: A Review of Terryl Givens, The Book of Mormon: A Very Short Introduction

Review: Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Reader’s Guide

Spring 2011 Letters

Summer 2011 Letters

Review: Richard E. Turley Jr. and William W. Slaughter How We Got the Book of Mormon

Review: Paul C. Gutjahr. The Book of Mormon: A Biography

Dialoguing Online: The Best of 10+ Years of Mormons Blogging

Book Review: Shifting Attitudes: Nauvoo Polygamy Merina Smith. Revelation, Resistance and Mormon Polygamy: The Introduction and Implementation of the Principle, 1830–1853

Book Review: Pre-Mortal Existence and the Problem of Suffering: Terryl Givens and the Heterodox Traditions Terryl L. Givens. When Souls Had Wings: Pre-Mortal Existence in Western Thought

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Advice to Book Reviewers

Recently I came across a book published in 1927 by Knopf entitled Book Reviewing. In it Wayne Gard writes that a “review must be presented in non-technical, natural language, combining brevity with wit, so that…

God, Gold, and Newsprint | Monte Burr McLaws, Spokesman for the Kingdom: Early Mormon Journalism and the Deseret News, 1830–1898

Expanded from Monte McLaws’ doctoral dissertation, Spokesman for the Kingdom is a terse, well-researched biography of the Deseret News and Mormon journalism from 1830 to 1898. The book is thematically organized around the topics of…

Writing: An Act of Responsibility

Should Mormon Women Speak Out? Thoughts on Our Place in the World

What I Would Be If I Weren’t A Mormon

The Goodness of the Church

Driving to Heaven

Love Your Elders

Appreciation for Wayne Booth

A Reasoned Discussion

Reply to Schow’s Reply

The Lesson of Noah’s Flood

Obliged to Believe about Noah

Sharing a Poem

In Memory of Dr. Bill

“The Day Not to Be Forgotten”: How I Learned What Happened in Tian’anmen Square

Praise

Dialogue in Milan

Patrick Mason Regretfully Resigns

What Is Dialogue’s Mission?

Left Me Baffled

The Only Reason to Marry?

Scriptural Rebuttal to Muhlestein

Post-Manifesto Marriages

What Is a Revival?

Faithful Historian Responds

A Call for Compassion

Clarifying My Own Stance

Kevin Barney Responds

Dialogue 42.2 (Summer 2009): xiii–iixx
The truth is that the winners get to write the history, and itwas those who rejected Asherahwho largely redacted or wrote the Old Testament as we have ittoday. There is, quite frankly, alot of political spin in the OldTestament. I recognize that weget really nervous when we starttalking about spin in the scrip-tures. So I do not blame anyone,including you, for not wanting to follow me there.

Asherah Alert

Dialogue 42.2 (Summer 2009): ix-xii
But when it comes to pegging Asherah as our Heavenly Mother, there are many problems which must be overcome, and Kevin Barney falls short of doing so. Barney’s proposition is that the early worship form of venerating Asherah is more valid than the later, more evolved form of monotheism.

Rest of the Story

Letter

Unapproachable Nature

George Smith Responds

René Girard and Mormon Scripture: A Response

Road Trip: The Strange Travels of Mark Sanford and Brigham Young

Terryl Givens and the Shape of Mormon Studies: A Review of Terryl Givens, The Book of Mormon: A Very Short Introduction

Review: Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Reader’s Guide

Spring 2011 Letters

Summer 2011 Letters

Review: Richard E. Turley Jr. and William W. Slaughter How We Got the Book of Mormon

Review: Paul C. Gutjahr. The Book of Mormon: A Biography

Dialoguing Online: The Best of 10+ Years of Mormons Blogging

Book Review: Shifting Attitudes: Nauvoo Polygamy Merina Smith. Revelation, Resistance and Mormon Polygamy: The Introduction and Implementation of the Principle, 1830–1853

Book Review: Pre-Mortal Existence and the Problem of Suffering: Terryl Givens and the Heterodox Traditions Terryl L. Givens. When Souls Had Wings: Pre-Mortal Existence in Western Thought