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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, Winter 2018 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 copyrighted 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 electronically 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, Winter 2018 CONTENTS iii ARTICLES AND ESSAYS On Solace Fiona Givens 1 Heretics in Truth: Love, Faith, and Hope as Terryl L. Givens 7 the Foundation for Theology, Community, and Destiny What Would Jesus Do in Cyberspace? David W. Scott 25 A Comparison of Online Authority Appeals on Two LDS Websites Targeting Believers and Non-Members British Latter Day Saint Conscientious Andrew Bolton 49 Objectors in World War I The Restoration of Conscientious Objection Ron Madson 77 NEW VOICES Pedagogy of Perfection: Joseph Smith’s Richard Sleegers 105 Perfectionism, How It was Taught in the Early LDS Church, and Its Contemporary Applicability FICTION With Marbles for Eyes Nate Noorlander 145 Resurrection Mette Ivie Harrison 161 POETRY On Cherubim and a Flaming Sword by Tyler Chadwick 165 J. Kirk Richards Talitha koum Tyler Chadwick 166 Walking Back to the ‘70s R. A. Christmas 168 Dream Psalm William DeFord 169 Placenta William DeFord 170 PERSONAL VOICES Heavenly Mother: The Mother of All Women Blaire Ostler 171 Well-Red Tait R. Jensen 183 iv Dialogue, Winter 2018 REVIEWS What is an LDS Artist? Micah Christensen 191 Glen Nelson. Joseph Paul Vorst. Revealing the Holy in Deja Earley’s Terresa Wellborn 208 To the Mormon Newlyweds Who Thought the Bellybutton was Somehow Involved. Can Faith Survive Choice and Circumstance? Heidi Naylor 212 Jack Harrell. Caldera Ridge. Running the (Selected) Gamut of Mike Lemon 215 Missionary Experiences Mike Laughead and Theric Jepsen, eds. Served: A Missionary Comics Anthology. Making the World Light for Others Matthew James Babcock 219 Keira Shae. How the Light Gets In: A Memoir. A Private Revelation Gary James Bergera 224 William Victor Smith. Textual Studies of the Doctrine and Covenants: The Plural Marriage Revelation. ART NOTE Reflections on Life, Art, Loss, and Love Rebecca Wagstaff 229 IN MEMORIAM Wes Johnson: Visionary Historian Robert A. Rees 237 FROM THE PULPIT Ministering Kristine Haglund 241 CONTRIBUTORS 249 Dialogue, Winter 2018 v Letter to the Editor I think Dialogue readers might be interested in a recent change at the Church History Building. I was shepherding a group of Young Men from our ward at a youth conference on Temple Square. Several hundred teenagers were present from many wards to participate in a full-day’s schedule of events, involving many of the different buildings in the area. We got to a lecture area at the Church History Building, where a professional historian with a doctor’s degree discussed with us the story of the translation of the Book of Mormon. On a table was a large white stovepipe hat made out of “bleached beaverskin hair.” He began by showing slides of some of the paintings used in the past to illustrate how the translation occurred. He then asked what was wrong with each painting. The first showed Joseph Smith poring over the gold plates. He explained that the plates were not used in the translation. Next he showed a picture of the breastplate and urim and thummim and another of a seer stone, and asked what was wrong with that. Then he called for two volunteers. One sat by the hat, and slowly read a couple of verses from the Book of Mormon that had been placed at the bottom of the hat. The other sat across the table and carefully wrote down what the first volunteer read. “Oliver” then read back what “Joseph” had slowly dictated. The historian then explained that we needed to update in our minds how the translation really took place. We went from there to the Museum of Church History and Art and saw a film of the First Vision. The narrator explained that there were nine different accounts, by Joseph and others, of what had happened, and stated that the account in the Pearl of Great Price contained ele- ments from several of the different accounts. Large groups of teenagers meet every few days for youth conferences on Temple Square all summer long. I am impressed that the Church is now making an effort to clarify some of the foundational events of Mormonism and present them in a more accurate format. vi Dialogue, Winter 2018 Incidentally, I started subscribing to Dialogue with the very first issue, and devoured it and every single issue that has followed. Thanks for a lifetime of stimulating, informed writing on all things Mormon. I’m very grateful and impressed! —Reed Wahlquist EDITOR’S NOTE NOTE ON IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY Boyd Petersen Editing this issue, I have thought much on both identity and community. I want to assure Dialogue readers that we remain committed to being a place of continued connection, vibrant welcoming, and life-affirming discussion.