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DIALOGUE DIALOGUE PO Box 381209 Cambridge, MA 02238 electronic service requested DIALOGUE a journal of mormon thought 49.1 spring 2016 49.1 EDITORS EDITOR Boyd Jay Petersen, Provo, UT WEB EDITOR Emily W. Jensen, Farmington, UT FICTION Julie Nichols, Orem, UT DIALOGUE POETRY Darlene Young, South Jordan, UT a journal of mormon thought REVIEWS (non-fiction) John Hatch, Salt Lake City, UT REVIEWS (literature) Andrew Hall, Fukuoka, Japan INTERNATIONAL Gina Colvin, Christchurch, New Zealand Carter Charles, Bordeaux, France POLITICAL Russell Arben Fox, Wichita, KS HISTORY Sheree Maxwell Bench, Pleasant Grove, UT SCIENCE Steven Peck, Provo, UT FILM & THEATRE Eric Samuelson, Provo, UT IN THE NEXT ISSUE PHILOSOPHY/THEOLOGY Brian Birch, Draper, UT ART Andrea Davis, Orem, UT Michael Barker, Daniel Parkinson, and Benjamin Brad Kramer, Murray, UT Knoll look at suicide rates among gay LDS teens BUSINESS & PRODUCTION STAFF BUSINESS MANAGER Mariya Manzhos, Cambridge, MA A roundtable discussion on Exponent II with Claudia PRODUCTION MANAGER Jenny Webb, Huntsville, AL Bushman, Nancy Tate Dredge, Judy Dushku, Susan COPY EDITORS Jani Fleet, Taylorsville, UT Richelle Wilson, Madison, WI Whitaker Kohler, and Carrel Hilton Sheldon INTERNS Geoff Griffin, Provo, UT Ian Mounteer, Orem, UT And fiction from Levi Peterson and Eric Jepson Christian D. Van Dyke, Provo, UT EDITORIAL BOARD Lavina Fielding Anderson, Salt Lake City, UT William Morris, Minneapolis, MN Mary L. Bradford, Landsdowne, VA Michael Nielsen, Statesboro, GA Claudia Bushman, New York, NY Nathan B. Oman, Williamsburg, VA Daniel Dwyer, Albany, NY Mathew Schmalz, Worcester, MA Ignacio M. Garcia, Provo, UT David W. Scott, Lehi, UT Brian M. Hauglid, Spanish Fork, UT John Turner, Fairfax, VA G. Kevin Jones, Salt Lake City, UT Blair Van Dyke, Cedar Hills, UT Becky Reid Linford, Leesburg, VA Join our DIALOGUE! BOARD OF DIRECTORS Find us on Facebook at Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought Follow us on Twitter @DialogueJournal Michael Austin, Evansville, IN Gregory A. Prince, Potomac, MD *Molly McLellan Bennion, Chair, Seattle, WA Robert Rees, Mill Valley, CA SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS Joanna Brooks, San Diego, CA Thomas F. Rogers, Bountiful, UT Sumer Thurston Evans, Verona, WI Brent Rushforth, Potomac, MD PRINT: 1 year (4 issues) $50 | international $70 | seniors/students $35 Fiona Givens, Montpelier, VA *Karla Stirling, New York, NY ELECTRONIC (PDF): 1 year (4 issues) $25 Robert A. Goldberg, Salt Lake City, UT Travis Stratford, New York, NY DVD ARCHIVE: Volumes 1–44 (1966–2011) in PDF format, $40 Kristine Haglund, Belmont, MA Jonathan Thomas, Chicago, IL Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, St. Louis, MO Morris Thurston, Villa Park, CA More titles and special offers available on our website: *Patrick Q. Mason, Claremont, CA Margaret Blair Young, Provo, UT Michael McBride, Irvine, CA *members of the Executive Committee www.dialoguejournal.com On the cover: Paige Elizabeth Anderson, Whole (Woman with an Issue of Blood), oil on panel DIALOGUE a journal of mormon thought is an independent quarterly established to express Mormon culture and to examine the relevance of religion to secular life. 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 a whole and to foster artistic and scholarly achieve- ment based on their cultural heritage. The journal encourages a variety of view- points; although every effort is made to en- sure accurate scholarship and responsible judgment, the views expressed are those of the individual authors and are not neces- sarily those of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or of the editors. ii Dialogue, Spring 2016 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. Contents copyright by the Dialogue Foundation. ISSN 0012-2157. Dialogue is available in full text in electronic form at www.dialoguejournal.com and is archived by the University of Utah Marriott Library Special Collections, available online at www.lib.utah.edu/portal/site/marriottlibrary. Dialogue is also available on microforms through University Microfilms International, www.umi.com. Dialogue welcomes articles, essays, poetry, notes, fiction, letters to the editor, and art. Submissions should follow the current Chicago Manual of Style. All submissions should be in Word and may be submitted elec- tronically at https://dialoguejournal.com/submissions/. For submissions of visual art, please contact [email protected]. Submissions published in the journal, including letters to the editor, are covered by our publications policy, https://dialoguejournal.com/ submissions/publication-policy/, under which the author retains the copyright of the work and grants Dialogue permission to publish. See www.dialoguejournal.com. EDITORS EMERITI Eugene England and G. Wesley Johnson Robert A. Rees Mary Lythgoe Bradford Linda King Newell and L. Jackson Newell F. Ross Peterson and Mary Kay Peterson Martha Sonntag Bradley and Allen D. Roberts Neal Chandler and Rebecca Worthen Chandler Karen Marguerite Moloney Levi S. Peterson Kristine Haglund Dialogue, Spring 2016 iii CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Editor’s Note Boyd Jay Petersen v ARTICLES AND ESSAYS “The Perfect Union of Man and Woman”: Fiona Givens 1 Reclamation and Collaboration in Joseph Smith’s Theology Making Yearning for Notoriety: Questionable and Melvin J. Bashore 27 False Claimants to America’s Worst Emigrant Massacre Mormonism and the Problem of Heterodoxy R. Dennis Potter 41 POETRY Temple Mark Brown 65 Grief Mark Brown 66 Keeping Fire Warren Hatch 68 October Above Trial Lake Warren Hatch 71 Stony Places Sarah E. Page 73 My sister once died Jenny Webb 75 FICTION The Trail Stephen Carter 77 NEW VOICES Baptism Christinah Cross 85 CATHOLIC-MORMON DIALOGUE Into a Foreign Land: A Catholic Polly Aird 97 among Mormons Deus Mea Lux Est: A Mormon Zina Nibley Petersen 109 among Catholics iv Dialogue, Spring 2016 Abundant Grace: The Humanness of Daniel P. Dwyer, OFM 119 Catholics and Latter-day Saints as a Basis for Friendship and Collaboration Ordination and Blessing Robert A. Rees 131 Mormon/Catholic Dialogue: Thinking Mathew N. Schmalz 139 about Ways Forward REVIEWS Finding Mormon Theology Again Taylor G. Petrey 149 Terryl L. Givens. Wrestling the Angel: The Foundations of Mormon Thought: Cosmos, God, Humanity A Not-So-Innocent Abroad Rosalynde Frandsen Welch 153 Craig Harline. Way Below the Angels: The Pretty Clearly Troubled but Not Even Close to Tragic Confessions of a Real Live Mormon Missionary Peck’s Peak Michael Austin 161 Steven L. Peck. Wandering Realities: The Mormonish Short Fiction of Steven L. Peck Steven L. Peck. Evolving Faith: Wanderings of a Mormon Biologist A Conversation Begins Joseph Gile 166 Stephen H. Webb and Alonzo L. Gaskill. Catholic and Mormon: A Theological Conversation FROM THE PULPIT The Elegance of Belief Phyllis Barber 171 ART NOTE International Art Competition Andrea Davis and Brad Kramer 179 CONTRIBUTORS 181 INTRODUCTION THE CONTINUING IMPORTANCE OF DIALOGUE I am delighted and honored to serve as the new editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. It is particularly exciting to be coming on board as we anticipate the journal’s fiftieth anniversary. (Stay tuned for details about our September 30th celebration!) I want to thank Kristine Haglund for her fine work over the past seven years, especially for her vision of how bring a global perspective to Dialogue and move the journal into the internet age. She is one of the smartest and most talented people I know and will be a hard act to follow. Dialogue began in 1966, when a group of young scholars at Stanford Uni- versity envisioned an independent Mormon journal that spoke to both faith and intellect, bringing together academic rigor, artistic quality, diverse perspectives, and heart-felt conviction. In the journal’s inaugural issue, Eugene England argued that dialogue—speaking from our hearts and listening compassionately to others—is central to the Mormon project, and he saw the journal as a vehicle for understanding and healing. Constructive and charitable dialogue, England argued, “will not solve all of our intellectual and spiritual problems—and it will not save us; but it can bring us joy and new vision and help us toward that dialogue with our deepest selves and with our God which can save us.” Dialogue soon became one of the main venues where Latter-day Saints discussed national and international issues of the day, like the Vietnam War, the Equal Rights Amendment, and the Civil Rights Movement; as well as unique Mormon issues, like Blacks and the priesthood and the discovery of the Joseph Smith papyri. Dialogue has, I believe, been a positive force in Mormonism, modeling ways to navigate the channels between faith and reason, and pro- viding a better appreciation of Mormonism’s bold and expansive worldview. Before beginning my tenure, I read Devery Anderson’s four-part history of Dialogue and reviewed its five decades of content. I am surprised at how little has changed and how relevant much of that content remains. I have also realized how revolutionary the internet has been. When Dialogue moved from California to Virginia, and then from Virginia to Utah, it required a moving truck. The journal needed extensive office space to house the staff required to publish and distribute the journal. No moving vans were necessary for the move from Boston to Orem, and email and Dropbox allow me to work with editors and production staff from around the world. The internet has also had a huge effect on Mormonism in the twenty-first century. While it has facilitated support for the various subgroups of our community, it has also balkanized the conversation, creating echo chambers for like-minded v vi Dialogue, Spring 2016 individuals. Furthermore, information’s free access has sometimes led to disenchantment with and disengagement from the Church.