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Dialogue Spring 2008 DIALOGUE A Journal A of Journal Thought Mormon DIALOGUE Vo l u m e 4 1 O No. 1 O Spring 2008 DIALOGUE P. O . B o xSalt Lake City, UT 84158 5 8 4 2 3 Address Service Requested Dialogue Electronic Options EDITORIAL STAFF EDITOR Levi S. Peterson, Issaquah, WA PRODUCTION MANAGER Brent Corcoran, Salt Lake City, UT ! Dialogue archive on searchable DVD for $40. SUBMISSIONS OFFICE MANAGER Karrin Peterson, Sammamish, WA LETTERS EDITOR Kathleen Petty, Bellevue, WA ! Issues included are Volumes 1-40, 1966 through HISTORY EDITOR To d d C o m p t o n , Mountain View, CA DIALOGUE the end of 2007. Updated yearly. PERSONAL VOICES EDITOR Mark Asplund, Seattle, WA A Journal of Mormon Thought FICTION EDITOR Karen Rosenbaum, Kensington, CA ! Search full text articles by author name, article POETRY EDITOR Karrin Peterson, Sammamish, WA A Complete Collection titles, issue numbers, and general word searches. 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It is edited by Latter-day Saints who wish to bring their faith into dialogue with the larger stream of world religious thought and with human experience as awholeandtofosterartisticandscholarly achievement based on their cultural heritage. The journal encourages a variety of viewpoints; although every effort is made to ensure accurate scholarship and responsible judgment, the views expressed are those of the individual authors and are not necessarily those of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or of the editors. Dialogue Info Page FINAL.qxd 1/6/2008 11:24 PM Page 1 Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought is published quarterly by the Dialogue Foundation. Dialogue has no official connection with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Third-class postage is paid at Salt Lake City, Utah. Contents copyright 2008 by the Dialogue Foundation. ISSN 0012-2157 Dialogue is also available on microforms through University Microfilms Inter- national, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346 and 18 Bedford Row, London WC1R4EJ, England. Dialogue is indexed by the ATLA Religion Database, published by the American Theological Library Association, 250 S. Wacker Dr., 16th Flr., Chicago, IL 60606, email: [email protected]; website: http://www.atla. com; Dialogue is also indexed by ABC-CLIO, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite C, Santa Barbara, CA 93117, website: http://www.abc-clio.com. Submissions: Dialogue welcomes articles, essays, poetry, notes, fiction, let- ters to the editor, and art. Submissions should follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. Electronic submissions are preferred. Send attachments in Word or WordPerfect to [email protected]. Please provide mailing address and phone number. Submissions may also be made in printed copy. Mail three copies to Dialogue Submissions Office, 704 228th Ave. NE, #723, Sammamish, WA 98074. Phone: (425) 898-9562. For submissions of visual art, consult the editor for specifications at [email protected] or (425) 898- 9562. Allow eight to twelve weeks for review of all submissions. Submissions published in the journal, including letters to the editor and brief notes, are covered by our Publication Policy, under which the author retains the copyright of the work and grants Dialogue permission to publish. See www.dialoguejour- nal.com/submissions. Subscriptions and Advertising: Information about subscriptions and adver- tising is available on our website and at the Dialogue Business Office, P.O. Box 58423, Salt Lake City, UT 84158; phone or fax (801) 274-8210; or email: dialoguejournal@ msn.com. See our website at www.dialoguejournal.com DIALOGUE:AJOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT,VOL.41,NO.1,SPRING 2008 Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A Halfway Covenant? Robert A. Rees v Appreciation for Dialogue Melanie H. vii A Rigorous Examination Gerry L. Ensley vii ARTICLES AND ESSAYS Can Deconstruction Save the Day? “Faithful Scholarship” and the Uses of Postmodernism John-Charles Duffy 1 Shadows on the Sun Dial: John E. Page and the Strangites William Shepard 34 A Playwright with a Passion for Unvarnished Depictions: An Interview with Tom Rogers Todd Compton 67 FICTION Entertaining Angels Unaware Laura McCune-Poplin 91 The Blessing Larry Day 113 POETRY Beautiful Black Madonna of Czestochowa Jamie Naylor 120 City of Brotherly Love Jamie Naylor 122 A Proposal Evertt Williams 123 Three-Legged Dog Simon Peter Eggertsen 124 Mechanical Failures Ken Raines 126 Spring Variations on a Theme by Lorenzo Snow R. A. Christmas 128 iii iv DIALOGUE:AJOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT, VOL. 41, NO. 1 REVIEWS Building “as Great a Temple as Ever Solomon Did” Matthew McBride, A House for the Most High: The Story of the Original Nauvoo Temple William Shepard 130 A Must-Read on Gender Politics Martha Sonntag Bradley, Pedestals, Podiums: Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights Deborah Farmer Kris 135 Balancing Faith and Honesty Segullah: Writings by Latter-day Saint Women Darlene Young 141 A Novel with a Lot of Way-Out-There Ideas D. Michael Martindale, Brother Brigham Matt A. Thurston 144 PERSONAL VOICES Joseph Smith: Lost and Found Jane Barnes 147 What I Would Be If I Weren’t a Mormon Kathleen Petty 158 Should Mormon Women Speak Out? Thoughts on Our Place in the World Claudia L. Bushman 171 Writing: An Act of Responsibility Phyllis Barber 185 CONTRIBUTORS 197 ABOUT THE ARTIST 199 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR AHalfwayCovenant? also requires one to live within such a As someone who has worked over the faith community under a heavy bur- past several decades to try and bring den of limited expression and oppor- tunity. Nevertheless, given an under- greater understanding to the experi- standing and supportive bishop, ences of gays and lesbians in Mormon which Gustav-Wrathall has, he dem- culture, I was pleased to read John onstrates that it is possible. Gustav-Wrathall’s “Trial of Faith” (40, no. 2 [Summer 2007]: 78–107). A num- Several years ago I wrote to a Gen- eral Authority friend that, given its ber of years ago at the annual Affirma- present position on homosexuality, I tion conference, I gave the keynote ad- thought the Church should consider dress, “Sacred or Secular: The Choice doing something similar to what the for Latter-day Homosexuals.” In it, I ar- seventeenth-century New England Pu- gued that many of the homosexuals I ritans did for church members who knew desperately wanted a relationship could not claim conversion: institute a with the Church, one that would allow method of accommodation for homo- them to worship, sing the songs of sexuals who were willing to enter into Zion, and be a part of a religious com- committed relationships (which are munity with which they had deep spiri- now officially and legally binding in tual connection and for which they had some states and countries). What is an earnest longing. I had also found now known as the Halfway Covenant that the majority who were no longer was the inspired and practical solution associated with the Church (because of of the Congregational churches to ac- official or self-excommunication—or commodate the second- and third-gen- who had just quietly lapsed) found it eration children of those who came to difficult to connect with another faith America to find religious freedom.
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