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Dialogue Spring 2013.Vp EDITORS EDITOR Kristine L. Haglund, Belmont, MA DIALOGUE WEB EDITOR Emily W. Jensen, Ogden, UT a journal of mormon thought ASSOCIATE EDITOR Matthew B. Bowman, Arlington, VA REVIEWS Melissa Madsen Fox, Russell Arben Fox, Wichita, KS INTERNATIONAL Ronan James Head, Malvern, England HISTORY Stephen Taysom, Shaker Heights, OH SCIENCE Joseph Spencer, Alburquerque, NM Be sure to visit dialoguejournal.com THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY Steven Peck, Provo, UT POETRY Tyler Chadwick, Pocatello, ID where you’ll find… FICTION Heather Marx, Westwood, MA FILM AND THEATER Eric Samuelsen, Provo, UT New podcasts featuring guests BUSINESS AND PRODUCTION STAFF David Campbell, Sarah Barrin- EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Mariya Manzhos, Cambridge, MA ger Gordon, John Turner, Bob PRODUCTION MANAGER Brent Corcoran, Salt Lake City, UT ART DIRECTOR Nathan Florence, Salt Lake City, UT Rees and Caitlin Ryan COPY EDITORS Libby Potter Boss, Belmont, MA Erika Ternes, Grand Marais, MN Book Reviews, archived issues, Jenny Webb, Huntsville, AL PROOFREADER Jani Fleet, Salt Lake City, UT $1.99 downloadable articles, EDITORIAL BOARD and featured online content Mary Lythgoe Bradford, Lansdowne, VA Becky Linford, Chantilly, VA from many corners of the web. Stephen Evans, Seattle, WA Max Perry Mueller, Somerville, MA Justin Flosi, Chicago, IL Michael Nielsen, Statesboro, GA And find us on Facebook at Dialogue: a Richard Haglund, Brentwood, TN David W. Scott, Orem, UT Heidi Harris, Rostock, Germany Ethan Yorgason, Daegu, South Korea journal of Mormon Thought and follow Linda Hoffman Kimball, Evanston, IL us on Twitter @Dialogue Journal BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRINT: Old-fashioned but most beloved. Philip L. Barlow, Logan, UT Patrick Q. Mason, Claremont, CA 1 year (4 issues) $50, international $70, seniors/students $35 *Kevin Barney, Chair, Hoffman Estates, IL Michael McBride, Irvine, CA Molly McLellan Bennion, Seattle, WA F. Ross Peterson, Logan, UT Brian D. Birch, Draper, UT Gregory A. Prince, Potomac, MD ELECTRONIC: Be the first to read the newest edition online. Claudia L. Bushman, Pasadena, CA Robert Rees, Mill Valley, CA Download, print, and share full-text pdfs. $25 Joanna Brooks, San Diego, CA *Karla Stirling, New York, NY Sumer Thurston Evans, Seattle, WA Jonathan Thomas, Chicago, IL DVD ARCHIVE: Contains Volumes 1–44, 1966–2011 Kristine L. Haglund, Belmont, MA Morris Thurston, Villa Park, CA Read and print full-text pdfs. $40 Val Hemming, Kensington, MD *members of the Executive Committee On the Cover: Valerie Atkisson, Join our DIALOGUE. Subscribe today. Tanner Spiral, gouache, ink on parchment, More titles and special offers available on our website. 96" x 120" www.dialoguejournal.com Atkisson Inside C.indd 1 3/26/13 8:27 PM 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, 46, no. 1 (Spring 2013) 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 Foundation. ISSN 0012–2157. Dialogue is available in full text in elec- tronic form at www.dialoguejournal.com and is archived by the Univer- sity 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, and online at dialoguejournal.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 electroni- cally at https://dialoguejournal.com/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, https://dialoguejournal.com/sub- missions/publication-policy/, under which the author retains the copy- right 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 DIALOGUE: AJOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT, 46, no. 1 (Spring 2013) CONTENTS ARTICLES AND ESSAYS “And Now It Is the Mormons”: The Magazine Crusade against the Mormon Church, 1910–1911 Kenneth L. Cannon II 1 Bones Heal Faster: Spousal Abuse in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Terence L. Day 64 Why the True Church Cannot Be Perfect Roger Terry 94 “Shake Off the Dust of Thy Feet”: TheRiseandFallof Mormon Ritual Cursing Samuel R. Weber 108 PERSONAL VOICES Home Again Scott Abbott 140 POETRY Offerings Dayna Patterson 151 Glazier Dayna Patterson 152 The Feather Pen James Goldberg 153 Ghazal James Goldberg 154 Fractals Calvin Olsen 155 This Dock My Home Calvin Olsen 156 Blessed Virgin Diana Dean 157 Same-Sex Attraction Clifton Jolley 158 In Those Days of My Spirit: A Found Poem Sarah E. Page 159 iii iv DIALOGUE: AJOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT, 46, no. 1 (Spring 2013) INTERVIEWS & CONVERSATIONS “An Exquisite and Profound Love”: An Interview with Andrew Solomon Gregory A. Prince 160 FICTION The Revelations & Opinions of the Rev. Clive Japhta, D.D. James Goldberg 190 REVIEWS Worth the Wait Dean C. Jessee, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Richard L. Jensen, eds. Journals, Volume 1: 1832–1839 Dean C. Jessee, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Richard L. Jensen, eds. Journals,Volume 2: December 1841–April 1843 Jonathan A. Stapley 200 Odysseus in the Underworld Samuel Morris Brown. In Heaven as It Is on Earth: Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp 206 FROM THE PULPIT An Imperfect Brightness of Hope Boyd Petersen 211 CONTRIBUTORS 217 ARTICLES AND ESSAYS “And Now It Is the Mormons”: The Magazine Crusade against the Mormon Church, 1910–19111 Kenneth L. Cannon II OneoftheproblemswithwhichtheAmericanpeoplewillsoon havetodealistherevivalofpolygamyinUtah....Mormon- ism without polygamy largely ceases to be Mormonism. Its whole theological system, from its conception of the Godhead down, is pervaded with sensualism. The Mormon god is not onlyajustandavengefulgod,butheisalustfulgod.—Burton J. Hendrick, “The Mormon Revival of Polygamy”2 These 375,000 [Mormons] have more political power than any million in the United States because they are a unit. There is little secession among them from the will of their leader, whom they believe divinely appointed to rule them in temporal as well as spiritual affairs. This political force, compact, unreasoning, unpatriotic, un-American, has a curious character, at once sin- ister and serene. It is the backbone of the Mormon empire, which is an echo from a time that antedates the Christian era.—Richard Barry, “The Political Menace of the Mormon Church”3 The name of the viper—I take it from the mouth of the viper–is “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.” It lies coiled on the country’s hearthstone, and asks only time to grow and collectapoisonandastrengthtostrike....Mormonism...is the Old Serpent, and the heel of every clean American should bruise its head. Its purpose is inimical, and it must either de- stroy or be destroyed. It is a political menace, a commercial men- ace.Mostofall,itisamoralmenace....Thebattleshould 1 2 DIALOGUE: AJOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT, 46, no. 1 (Spring 2013) continue until all of Mormonism and what it stands for are de- stroyed. Then, and not before, will this republic be safe.—Alfred HenryLewis,“TheViperontheHearth”and“TheViper’s Trail of Gold” 4 Of the men who could have written this narrative, some are dead, some are prudent; some are superstitious; and some are personallyforsworn....Sincetherewasapparentlynooneelse who felt the duty and also had the information or the wish to write,itseemedmyplacetoundertakeit....Ihavewritten,in all candor, what no reasons of personal advantage or self-justi- fication could have induced me to write. I shall be accused of rancor, of religious antagonism, of political ambition, of egotis- tical pride. But no man who knows the truth will say sincerely thatIhavelied....Thetruth,initsowntime,willprevail,in spite of cunning. I am willing to await that time–for myself– and for the Mormon people.—Frank J. Cannon, “Under the Prophet in Utah” 5 It is hard to reduce this matter to words but I have a strong sub-consciousness that in all this anti-Mormon agitation here there is a Guiding Hand and that its purpose is to open the minds of the people to receive what will in a little while from now be an overwhelming message.—Isaac Russell to Joseph F. Smith6 From September 1910 through August 1911, in an unusual con- f luence of focus, four popular national magazines critiqued the Mormon Church and its prophet in a series of articles that Mor- mon leader and historian B. H. Roberts characterized as the “magazine crusade” against the Church. All of the articles were written by prominent muckraking journalists who sought both to identify church practices that needed to be reformed and to sell magazines by presenting their critiques in a way that would ap- peal to Progressive America.
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