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 a walk-in closet. She pulled open her dresser drawer, found her old orange bikini, and laid it on her new quilt with its puffy, three-dimensional blocks. Watching that old …
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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 collections Canyons of Grace and Night Soil, and autobiography A Rascal by Nature, A Christian by Yearning. He lives in Washington with his wife Althea. The …
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 in the public university. During the twentieth century, most people practiced their religions privately, she said, not imagining that intelligent public religious discussion could occur without …
Fully Invested: Taking Stock in Utah County’s Dream Mine
By Kevin Cantera Introduction: The Community of Believers On 14 May 2007, a crowd assembled in the convention hall at the Veterans Memorial Building in Spanish Fork, Utah, for the Relief Mine Company’s annual stockholders’ meeting. An almost festive air preceded the official meeting as about 100 investors gathered to hear the company’s annual financial …