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Category: Essays

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  • Posted on March 14, 2023March 14, 2023

Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye introduces “Every Needful Thing”

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  • Posted on March 10, 2023March 10, 2023

In Memoriam: Tom Plummer

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  • by Guest
  • Posted on May 9, 2022May 12, 2022

A Labor of Love to Understand Mormon Marriage

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  • by Admin
  • Posted on June 1, 2021June 1, 2021

AML Special Award: This is the Plate: Utah Food Traditions

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  • by Andrew Hall
  • Posted on November 4, 2020November 4, 2020

Dialogue Fall 2020 and an interview with D.J. Butler and Mattathias Westwood

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  • by Guest
  • Posted on May 16, 2020May 16, 2020

Lavina Fielding Anderson, “Mercy without End”, reviewed by Christopher Angulo

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  • by Julie Nichols
  • Posted on March 27, 2020

Patrick Madden, Disparates, reviewed by Julie J. Nichols

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  • by Guest
  • Posted on November 14, 2019November 14, 2019

Michael William Palmer on writing about faith, and “Baptizing the Dead and Other Jobs”

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NEW REVIEWS

  • Earl, “No Two People Are Not on Fire” (Reviewed by Stephen Dethloff)
  • Earl, “No Two People Are Not on Fire” (Reviewed by Theric Jepson)
  • Champoux, “C.C.A. Christensen: A Mormon Visionary” (Reviewed by Kevin Folkman)
  • Haws, “Richard Lyman Bushman: A Mormon Ambassador” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Oman, “Welding Another Link: Latter-day Saint Essays on Faith and Intellect” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Champoux, “C. C. A. Christensen: A Mormon Visionary” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Brown, “After Happiness: Living with Faith in a Time of Crisis” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)

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  1. Robert Bennett on A Mormon Odyssey: Jack Harrell’s “The Boy Comes Home”November 8, 2026

    Dear Bruce— I am delighted to see you return to our much-needed conversation about Jack Harrell’s thought-provoking story, “The Boy…

  2. Bruce W Jorgensen on A Mormon Odyssey: Jack Harrell’s “The Boy Comes Home”November 7, 2026

    Dear Robert — My apologies for such a tardy response. I started composing this on 13 Oct, but before that…

  3. Stephen Dethloff on In My Beginning Is My End: An Element of LDS StoriesNovember 2, 2026

    Yeah. I want to read the Wirkus & Hebermeyer stuff. Most of what I've read the last year, in this…

  4. Robert Bennett on In My Beginning Is My End: An Element of LDS StoriesOctober 19, 2026

    We can never have too many engagements with James Goldberg’s work. And thoughtful circuitous musings to boot. You cover a…

  5. Robert Bennett on Dialogue, Fall 2026: The literatureOctober 19, 2026

    I’m already on the record about Habermeyer’s work, so let me just offer some brief remarks about Terry’s story. It…

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