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See our website at www.dialoguejournal.com DIALOGUE:AJOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT,VOL.40,NO.3,FALL 2007 Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dialogue Reconsidered Richard Ward v A Note to Jiro Numano from a Nisei American Yukio Shimomura vi Jiro Numano Responds Jiro Numano vi ARTICLES AND ESSAYS The Case against Same-Sex Marriage Randolph G. Muhlestein 1 A Case for Same-Sex Marriage: Reply to Randolph Muhlestein H. Wayne Schow 40 The Encounter of the Young Joseph Smith with Presbyterianism John Matzko 68 On Balancing Faith in Mormonism with Traditional Biblical Stories: The Noachian Flood Story Clayton M. White and Mark D. Thomas 85 The Death and Resurrection of the RLDS Zion: ACaseStudyin“FailedProphecy,”1930–70 David J. Howlett 112 THINKING GLOBALLY Latter-day Saints under Siege: The Unique Experience of Nicaraguan Mormons Henri Gooren 134 FICTION Accusation Angela Hallstrom 156 Drought Larry T. Menlove 168 iii iv DIALOGUE:AJOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT, VOL. 40, NO. 3 POETRY I Teach Six-Year-Olds about Jesus in Sunday School Deja Earley 171 The Clearing Stanton Harris Hall 172 Yorick Javen Tanner 174 Some with Shadows Dixie Partridge 176 While Planting Hollyhocks Dixie Partridge 178 After My Brother’s Remission Dixie Partridge 180 Black Handkerchief Robert A. Rees 181 Wedding Flower Robert A. Rees 182 Sonnet to a Japanese Spring Armand Mauss 183 At the End of the Street Lies the Sky Michael Parker 184 REVIEWS The Diary of a Historian Richard Lyman Bushman, On the Road with Joseph Smith Marshall Hamilton 185 Analyzing Spiritual Things from a Sociological Perspective Rodney Stark and Reid Neilson, The Rise of Mormonism Jeffrey Needle 190 PERSONAL VOICES Depression and the Brethren of the Priesthood Mack Patten 194 Frau Rüster and the Cure for Cognitive Dissonance Roger Terry 201 CONTRIBUTORS ABOUT THE ARTIST LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dialogue Reconsidered They were articles that “spoke” to me I received a letter in the mail re- in special ways and, indeed, strength- cently soliciting donations for the sup- ened my faith and resolve to draw port of your journal. It included a closer to my Heavenly Father. They were articles that I knew would never well-written message from Hardy Redd be published in the official Church and Levi Peterson to which I would like magazines but that were, nevertheless, to refer. The first line of their letter uplifting and supportive of the corner- read, “Who would have thought it pos- stones of my faith, which are the exis- sible—a serious scholarly journal re- tence of a loving Heavenly Father, the sponsibly examining religious faith and life and mission of the Savior, Jesus practice from a friendly yet independent Christ, the restoration of the gospel of point of view?” (emphasis mine). the Jesus Christ in our time through a I was a regular subscriber to Dialogue newly called prophet of God, the ve- for many years—up until eight or nine racity of the Book of Mormon as scrip- years ago. 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