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Dialogue Summer 2011.Vp DIALOGUEa 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 achievement based on their cultural heritage. The journal encour- ages a variety of viewpoints; although every effort is made to ensure accurate scholarship and responsible judgment, the views express- ed 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. ii DIALOGUE: AJOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT, 44, no. 1 (Spring 2011) Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought is published quarterly by the Dia- logue Foundation. Dialogue has no official connection with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Contents copyright by the Dialogue Foun- dation. 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 edi- tor, and art. Submissions should follow the current Chicago Manual of Style. All submissions should be in Word and may be submitted electronically at https://dialoguejournal.com/dialogue_submissions/. For submissions of visual art, please contact [email protected]. Allow eight to twelve weeks for review of all submissions. Submissions published in the journal, including letters to the editor, are covered by our publication policy, under which the author retains the copyright of the work and grants Dialogue permission to publish. See www.dialoguejournal.com. EDITORSEMERITI Eugene England and G. Wesley Johnson (Vols. 1:1–5:4, 1966–70) Robert A. Rees (Vols. 6:1–11:4, 1970–76) Mary Lythgoe Bradford (Vols. 12:1–16:4, 1977–82) Linda King Newell and L. Jackson Newell (Vols. 17:1–21:4, 1982–86) F. Ross Peterson and Mary Kay Peterson (Vols. 22:1–26:4, 1987–92) Martha Sonntag Bradley and Allen D. Roberts (Vols. 27:1–31:4, 1993–98) Neal Chandler and Rebecca Worthen Chandler (Vols. 32:1–36:4, 1999–2003) Karen Marguerite Moloney (Vol. 37:1, 2004) Levi S. Peterson (Vol. 37:1–41:4, 2004–8) DIALOGUE: AJOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT, 44, no. 2 (Summer 2011) CONTENTS LETTERS Edwin Firmage Responds Edwin Firmage Jr. v GUEST EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION Why Nature Matters: A Special Issue of Dialogue on Mormonism and the Environment Steven L. Peck 1 ARTICLES AND ESSAYS Faith and the Ethics of Climate Change George B. Handley 6 Enoch’s Vision and Gaia: An LDS Perspective on Environmental Stewardship Craig D. Galli 36 Flexibility in the Ecology of Ideas: Revelatory Religion and the Environment Bryan V. Wallis 57 Whither Mormon Environmental Theology? Jason M. Brown 67 “The Blood of Every Beast”: Mormonism and the Question of the Animal Bart H. Welling 87 PERSONAL VOICES Why Joseph Went to the Woods: Rootstock for LDS Literary Nature Writers Patricia Gunter Karamesines 119 Recompense Adam S. Miller 134 Grandpa’s Hat Ron Madson 143 POETRY Gaius Sarah Dunster 148 Easter Sermons Harlow Soderborg Clark 150 Seasonal Ritual Jon Ogden 152 iii iv DIALOGUE: AJOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT, 44, no. 2 (Summer 2011) Winterscape: Prairie Jonathon Penny 153 Mother Willow Karen Kelsay 154 Girl without a Mother to Her Big Brother Sandra Skouson 155 FICTION The Birth of Tragedy Hugo Olaiz 157 American Trinity David G. Pace 161 REVIEWS Image and Reality in the Utah Zion Polly Aird, Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector: A Scottish Immigrant in the American West, 1848–1861 Benjamin E. Park 177 Not Just Buchanan’s Blunder William P. MacKinnon, At Sword’s Point, Part 1: A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858 Polly Aird 180 Scry Me a River George B. Handley, Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River Rob Fergus 190 FROM THE PULPIT This Little Light of Ours: Ecologies of Revelation Peter L. McMurray 197 Contributors 207 Writing Awards for 2010 213 About the Artist 216 LETTERS Edwin Firmage Responds the Church, if it is serious about building a moral society, must take a I appreciate Kate Holbrook’s willing- ness to give a serious reading (“A Sac- bold and vocal stance. In doing so, rament of Stewardship,” 43, no. 4 the Church will necessarily take other [Winter 2010]: vi–xii) to the articles by steps that are the kinds of steps we me and by my wife, Carrol (“Light in must take anyway if we are serious Darkness: Embracing the Opportu- about building Zion. These steps in- nity of Climate Change” and “Pre- clude a radical reappraisal of how we serves,” 43, no. 3 [Fall 2010]: 100–127, relate to the environment and to each 128–66). She raises several interesting other. issues, which, in another context, I can only lament that Dialogue might be worth debating. chose not to publish my entire article. For me, though, and I think also for In the sections that are available only Carrol, only one thing really matters. online (see the blog section at http: Each of our pieces tries to evoke a //www.edwinfirmage.com), I illus- sense of what the LDS Church has lost trate the gargantuan nature of the in its headlong rush to assimilate into challenge we face with climate the capitalist American mainstream. change and offer some correspond- Chief among the casualties has been ingly bold suggestions for what the the commitment to building Zion in Church could do to help prevent it. anything but ideological terms. For Given the scope and depth of these most Church members today, I be- recommendations about climate lieve, building Zion is synonymous change and environmental steward- with growing the Church. But these ship, Holbrook’s mention that Brig- two concepts are not synonymous, as ham Young University includes an life in Utah demonstrates. Nowhere hour-long devotional each week in its else is there a similar concentration of academic schedule (ix) is beside the LDS population and power. And yet point. Utah does not lead the nation or the I’ll be impressed by the Church’s world in any of those dimensions of commitment to stewardship of the life that could be counted as essential earth when every Mormon building steps toward a Zion society. This dis- and business runs on clean power crepancy lies at the heart of my article generated on-site. It is true that the on the prophetic Zion ideal; and un- Church, on April 27, 2010, announc- fortunately, I don’t think I really got ed a pilot project of four solar-pow- this point across. ered chapels in Farmington and Ea- One of my most important asser- gle Mountain, Utah; Apache Junc- tions is that the key to building Zion in tion, Arizona; and Logandale and our time is a timely and appropriate Pahrump, Nevada (“Solar-Powered response to climate change, which, if it Construction Design Gets ‘Green’ is anything like what the science is tell- Light from Church Leaders,” http: ing us, is the biggest moral issue of all //newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom time and, therefore, an issue on which /eng/news-releases-stories/solar- v vi DIALOGUE: AJOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT, 44, no. 2 (Summer 2011) powered-construction-design-gets- of gospel teaching and Church prac- green-light-from-church-leaders [ac- tice could not be better illustrated. cessed February 6, 2011]). But charac- Kate Holbrook’s response to our teristically, the Church is rolling out articles was thoughtful, kind, and its solar agenda in a quiet, measured soft-spoken. I appreciate these quali- way that will take too long and that ties in academic discourse, but my misses the chance to speak about the piece is not an academic exercise. gospel of solar power to people in Like my life at this point, it is un- Utah who still don’t even believe that abashedly activist. Those qualities of climate change is real. deliberateness and softspokenness, Holbrook raises other points about otherwise so appealing, now drive me the social gospel that are essential to up the wall. Zion. Again, my reaction is similar. I’ll I find myself increasingly frus- be impressed, for example, by the trated by the lack of urgency, espe- Church’s commitment to equality cially in circles such as our universi- when it launches a national campaign ties and churches where activist en- to eliminate minimum wage in favor of a living wage and when it militantly de- ergy should be electric and world- fends the right of workers to organize changing. During the 1960s, Amer- and equally militantly attacks the em- ica’s universities and churches were ployers that exploit them. in an uproar over the war in Vietnam. On these and many other issues The uproar was warranted. In climate central to the moral gospel, the change, we face a challenge that Church could make dramatic state- makes the Vietnam War vanish into ments and take dramatic action with- insignificance; but our churches and out in any way violating its mandate as universities are largely silent as cen- a nonpolitical, religious institution. In- ters of activism. stead, it invariably chooses the quiet, Climate change is the biggest and evolutionary way (if it chooses to say or most urgent problem in human his- do anything). And, of course, it contin- tory.
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