The Family Forum: Sanctuary Trauma
By Michael Farnworth This is the first of a series of columns dedicated to understanding and improving the dynamics of Mormon families. My premise is that... Read more.
Angina: Fiction
By Helen Walker Jones After Magnum, P.I., Myrna Kaufusi walked upstairs to her bedroom. Originally designed as a maid’s room, it wasn’t much bigger than... Read more.
Update: Issue 161
Hey, Dude, I’m a Mormon A professional surfer happily guides her board over Pacific waves. A couple handles important affairs at the Washington D.C.-based companies... Read more.
Faith By Proxy: A Conversation with Author Brady Udall
If we exclude science fiction and vampire authors, Brady Udall is currently Mormonism’s brightest literary star. Breaking onto the scene with his short... Read more.
Making Ourselves Visible: A Conversation with Author Johnny Townsend
If you’ve been reading Sunstone and Dialogue for the past five years, you’ve run across multiple examples of Johnny Townsend’s work. One of Mormonism’s... Read more.
The Call of Abraham
Their fervor triggers a trip to a different dimension. The members of the Gospel Doctrine class are involved in an energetic discussion of the Abrahamic covenant.... Read more.
Deja Vu?
The real question facing the Church with regards to homosexuality is whether there is a genetic element to sexual preference. Many of the issues to be dealt... Read more.
Highway to Heaven
They say ghosts are the spirits of people who are dealing with loose ends. Urgent unfinished business can make any death untimely and spawn a haunting. Based on... Read more.
“Look” and Live
Meditation on 3 Nephi 28 What do you want after I’m gone?” Zed swallowed. He had expected the question but still was not ready. No one answered. The question... Read more.
Tools, Not Idols
The next time someone asks me why Mormons don’t discuss the specifics of temple ceremonies, even amongst themselves, I am going to say this: “To leave each of... Read more.
Poem: Fact of My Life
My job was once threatened if I published a poem. I lived in another place but in America and knew my rights. I let the poem wait. Oh, I read it aloud once and... Read more.
In Memoriam: Linda Sillitoe
A Tribute to Linda Sillitoe by Levi S. Peterson Levi S. Peterson is a former editor of Dialogue and author of novels The Backslider and Aspen Marooney, short-story... Read more.
Faith and the “As If” Factor: Review of Doug Thayer’s “The Tree House”
By Levi S. Peterson At 80, Douglas Thayer goes on writing impressive fiction, as this latest novel shows. Cast in short, simple sentences and concentrating on the... Read more.
People: Issue 161
At Large. TWO ANONYMOUS PARACHUTERS who base jumped from the top of the Church Office Building on 12 November. According to Church employee Annie Beer, the two men... Read more.
News–Issue 161
Packer’s Speech Prompts National Controversy, Revisions A general conference sermon in which Apostle Boyd K. Packer defended the LDS role in Proposition 8... Read more.
Gratitude: A Contagious Choice
By Frances Lee Menlove It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. —Albus Dumbledore I begin with a story, a... Read more.
Letters to the Editor: Issue 161
Remembering Lambda Delt In her excellent tribute to a beloved spiritual mentor, Laurie N. DiPadova-Stocks fails to mention the vital role played by the Church co-ed... Read more.
Poem: In Riverdale
We returned to our beginnings in August, with its crayola green trees and grass, blue sky, and yellow light so certainly imposed that desert light and night and... Read more.
Eugene England’s Calculated Risk: The Struggle for Academic Freedom and Religious Dialogue
By Charlotte Hansen In a recent lecture at the University of Utah, Krista Tippett, host of the NPR radio show, Speaking of Faith, argued that religion needs a place... Read more.
OK, Mormon: Review of Doug Thayer’s “The Tree House”
By E. George Goold Everyone familiar with Mormon letters knows Douglas Thayer. The veteran Brigham Young University English professor established himself with the... Read more.