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See our website at www.dialoguejournal.com DIALOGUE:AJOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT,VOL. 40, NO. 4, WINTER 2007 Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A Neglected Chronicler David Timmins v Science/Religion Complement Kirk D. Hagen vii Praise from Afar Susanne Müller-Schröter viii Celestial Sex? Michael Fillerup viii ARTICLES AND ESSAYS A Defense of the Authority of Church Doctrine Nathan Oman 1 The Gospel in Communication: A Conversation with Communication Theorist John Durham Peters Ethan Yorgason 29 THINKING GLOBALLY Hands Raised Up: Corruption, Power, and Context in Bolivian Mormonism David Clark Knowlton 47 “The Other” in the Limelight: One Perspective on the Publicity Surrounding the New LDS Temple in Finland Kim B. Östman 71 FICTION Charity Never Matthew James Babcock 109 The Buzzard Tree Johnny Townsend 120 POETRY One Tree Mary Lythgoe Bradford 128 The Word Mary Lythgoe Bradford 128 Land’s End, 1997 Don W. Jenkins 129 iii iv DIALOGUE:AJOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT, VOL. 40, NO. 4 Moving the Story, with Conviction: On the LDS Church and the Marriage Amendment Johanna Wagner 130 To My Teacher Darlene Young 131 Patriarchal Blessing Darlene Young 132 Nephews Lee Robison 133 Hunter’s Visitation Lee Robison 134 REVIEWS APluralityofCompetingSelves Wayne C. Booth, My Many Selves: The Quest for aPlausibleHarmony NealW.Kramer 137 Getting at the Marrow William A. Wilson, The Marrow of Human Experience: Essays on Folklore Edward A. Geary 141 Big Wonderful, Little Masterpiece Kevin Holdsworth, Big Wonderful: Notes from Wyoming Mary Lythgoe Bradford 144 PERSONAL VOICES Seeds of Faith in City Soil: Growing Up Mormon in New York City Neylan McBaine 149 An Old Mormon Writes to Harold Bloom Henry L. Miles 164 CONTRIBUTORS 176 ABOUT THE ARTIST LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ANeglectedChronicler Church authorities to obtain state- IreadMichaelQuinn’s“LDS hood. Here is an interesting sidebar Church Authority and New Plural Mar- for political scientists and historians. riages, 1890–1904” when it appeared Cannon had all but achieved his ob- jective when Grover Cleveland was de- (Dialogue 18, no. 1, [Spring 1985]: feated for a second term. As some may 9–105). I also found interesting Julie remember, Cleveland became the only Hemming Savage’s “Hannah Grocer U.S. president reelected after an inter- Hegsted and Post-Manifesto Plural val of four years out of office. He Marriage” (Dialogue 26, no. 3 [Fall needed no further convincing that 1993]: 101–18). Utah should become a state when he In a day when the world press is ex- resumed office and saw Utah’s admis- pounding on the polygamous ancestry sion to the union as one of his admin- of presidential candidate Mitt Romney, istration’s first items of business. I thought Dialogue readers might be in- Cleveland was a Democrat; and for terested in the following thoughts many years, Utah voted Democratic in penned twenty years ago after reading gratitude for Cleveland’s understand- Quinn’s and Savage’s only partially in- ing and in retaliation against the Re- formed articles on the subject of post- publican Party which, with the excep- Manifesto plural marriages. tion of the two Cleveland administra- I am constantly amazed how the cur- tions, had ruled the United States rent generation is rediscovering matters since the Civil War and had deliber- that never were a mystery.