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Free Forever to Act for Themselves”:Howard Thurman and Latter-day Saint Agency

Listen to a conversation about this piece here. There is in every person an inward sea, and in that sea there is an island and on that island there is an altar and standing guard…

Miracles Upon Miracles for Maher

Many years ago, my husband was saved by a series of remarkable events. Or miracles? Our international Muslim and Mormon family, which now includes four adult children, their spouses, and a growing number of grandchildren,…

A Superior Alternative

I’m an Aries with my sun in the sixth house, which means, according to astrology, that since the moment I was born, health has been my top priority. I had a hard time believing that…

An Assortment of Meditations

Samuel M. Brown’s Where the Soul Hungers is something of a grab bag of sundry reflections on the gospel. As Brown himself explains, the book is intended to be part “pure devotions” and part “philosophical…

The Earth and the Inhabitants Thereof (Non-)Humans in the Divine Household

Reading the Word: Spirit Materiality in the Mountain Landscapes of Nan Shepherd

Dominion in the Anthropocene

Bleakness or a Future with Unicorns? Ryan Habermeyer. The Science of Lost Futures.

Review: Morning Has Broken Robert A. Rees. Waiting for Morning

Roundtable: A Balm in Gilead: Reconciling Black Bodies within a Mormon Imagination

Dialogue 51.3 (Fall 2018): 185–192
“As much we may hope that one would disregard the explicitly racial teachings of the past, the significance of corporeality in the Mormon imagination is such that Mormonism’s racial wounds run deep. With-out a thoughtful consideration of the impact of the priesthood and temple restrictions, their legacy manifests in implicit and explicit ways.”

The Truth, the Partial Truth, Something Like the Truth, So Help Me God

Philosophical Christian Apology Meets “Rational” Mormon Theology

On “Defense of Marriage” A Reply to Quinn

In a reply to Quinn’s article in the same issue, Armand Mauss questioned whether the church was motivated by homophobia or a more benevolent force.

Prelude to the National “”Defense of Marriage”” Campaign: Civil Discrimination Against Feared or Despised Minorities

This is an early 50+ page article documenting LDS political activity in the 1990s on same-sex marriage, culminating in Prop 22. Quinn’s explanation was that homophobia provided the best explanation for LDS prejudice against same-sex…

Peace Psychology and Mormonism: A Broader Vision for Peace

Rooted in Christian Hope: The Case for Pacifism

Anabaptism, the Book of Mormon, and the Peace Church Option

Dialogue 37.1 (Spring 2004): 75–94
However, Mennonites and Latter Day Saints may be spiritual cousins. A sympathetic comparison of the origins of both movements may illuminate their past and also assist in contemporary living of the gospel of shalom.

The Ideology of Empire: A View from “America’s Attic”

The Possibilities of Mormon Peacebuilding

Imprisonment, Defiance, and Division: The History of Mormon Fundamentalism in the 1940s and 1950s

The Current Philosophy of Consciousness Landscape: Where Does LDS Thought Fit?

Music of a “More Exalted Sphere”: The Sonic Cosmology of La Monte Young

Give Me My Myths

An Imperfect Brightness of Hope

“An Exquisite and Profound Love”: An Interview with Andrew Solomon

“Questions at the Veil”

Review: Adam S. Miller. Speculative Grace: Bruno Latour and Object-Oriented Theology

An Interview with Rabbi Harold Kushner

Review: Adam S. Miller. Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology

Review: Jacob T. Baker, ed. Mormonism at the Crossroads of Philosophy and Theology: Essays in Honor of David L. Paulsen

Review: E-mails with a Young Mormon about Adam Miller’s Letters to a Young Mormon Adam S. Miller. Letters to a Young Mormon

Plenty: A Morning Poem at 75

Free Forever to Act for Themselves”:Howard Thurman and Latter-day Saint Agency

Listen to a conversation about this piece here. There is in every person an inward sea, and in that sea there is an island and on that island there is an altar and standing guard…

Miracles Upon Miracles for Maher

Many years ago, my husband was saved by a series of remarkable events. Or miracles? Our international Muslim and Mormon family, which now includes four adult children, their spouses, and a growing number of grandchildren,…

A Superior Alternative

I’m an Aries with my sun in the sixth house, which means, according to astrology, that since the moment I was born, health has been my top priority. I had a hard time believing that…

An Assortment of Meditations

Samuel M. Brown’s Where the Soul Hungers is something of a grab bag of sundry reflections on the gospel. As Brown himself explains, the book is intended to be part “pure devotions” and part “philosophical…

The Earth and the Inhabitants Thereof (Non-)Humans in the Divine Household

Reading the Word: Spirit Materiality in the Mountain Landscapes of Nan Shepherd

Dominion in the Anthropocene

Bleakness or a Future with Unicorns? Ryan Habermeyer. The Science of Lost Futures.

Review: Morning Has Broken Robert A. Rees. Waiting for Morning

Roundtable: A Balm in Gilead: Reconciling Black Bodies within a Mormon Imagination

Dialogue 51.3 (Fall 2018): 185–192
“As much we may hope that one would disregard the explicitly racial teachings of the past, the significance of corporeality in the Mormon imagination is such that Mormonism’s racial wounds run deep. With-out a thoughtful consideration of the impact of the priesthood and temple restrictions, their legacy manifests in implicit and explicit ways.”

The Truth, the Partial Truth, Something Like the Truth, So Help Me God

Philosophical Christian Apology Meets “Rational” Mormon Theology

On “Defense of Marriage” A Reply to Quinn

In a reply to Quinn’s article in the same issue, Armand Mauss questioned whether the church was motivated by homophobia or a more benevolent force.

Prelude to the National “”Defense of Marriage”” Campaign: Civil Discrimination Against Feared or Despised Minorities

This is an early 50+ page article documenting LDS political activity in the 1990s on same-sex marriage, culminating in Prop 22. Quinn’s explanation was that homophobia provided the best explanation for LDS prejudice against same-sex…

Peace Psychology and Mormonism: A Broader Vision for Peace

Rooted in Christian Hope: The Case for Pacifism

Anabaptism, the Book of Mormon, and the Peace Church Option

Dialogue 37.1 (Spring 2004): 75–94
However, Mennonites and Latter Day Saints may be spiritual cousins. A sympathetic comparison of the origins of both movements may illuminate their past and also assist in contemporary living of the gospel of shalom.

The Ideology of Empire: A View from “America’s Attic”

The Possibilities of Mormon Peacebuilding

Imprisonment, Defiance, and Division: The History of Mormon Fundamentalism in the 1940s and 1950s

The Current Philosophy of Consciousness Landscape: Where Does LDS Thought Fit?

Music of a “More Exalted Sphere”: The Sonic Cosmology of La Monte Young

Give Me My Myths

An Imperfect Brightness of Hope

“An Exquisite and Profound Love”: An Interview with Andrew Solomon

“Questions at the Veil”

Review: Adam S. Miller. Speculative Grace: Bruno Latour and Object-Oriented Theology

An Interview with Rabbi Harold Kushner

Review: Adam S. Miller. Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology

Review: Jacob T. Baker, ed. Mormonism at the Crossroads of Philosophy and Theology: Essays in Honor of David L. Paulsen

Review: E-mails with a Young Mormon about Adam Miller’s Letters to a Young Mormon Adam S. Miller. Letters to a Young Mormon

Plenty: A Morning Poem at 75