Essays

“The Possibility of Dialogue: A Personal View.” Dialogue 1.1 (Spring 1966): 8–11.

“That They Might Not Suffer: The Gift of Atonement.” Dialogue 1.3 (Autumn 1966): 141–55. Reprinted in AMCAP: Journal of the Association of Mormon Counselors and Psychotherapists, 8.4 (1982): 21–27.

“The Tragedy of Vietnam and the Responsibility of Mormons.” Dialogue 2.4 (Winter 1967): 71–91.

“Are Mormons Christians?” Dialogue 5.4 (Winter 1970): 71–76.

“Growing Up Mormon: Maturity for a New Era.” Dialogue 6.1 (Spring 1971): 100–10.

“Why Not Go To A Christian College?” Dialogue 6.3/4 (Autumn/Winter 1971): 152–55.

“Going to Conference.” Dialogue 7.2 (Summer 1972): 81–83.

“The Mormon Cross.” Dialogue 8.1 (Spring 1973): 78–86.

“Letter to a College Student.” Dialogue 8.3/4 (Autumn/Winter 1973): 178–80.

“Hanging By A Thread: Mormons and Watergate.” Dialogue 9.2 (Summer 1974): 9–18.

“The Hosanna Shout in Washington. D.C.” Dialogue 9.2 (Summer 1974):62–67.

“Blessing the Chevrolet.” Dialogue 9.3 (Autumn 1974): 57–60.

“Great Books or True Religion? Defining the Mormon Scholar.” Dialogue 9:4 (Winter 1974): 36–49. Later reprinted in Dialogues with Myself and Irreantum 3.3 (Autumn 2001): 8–22.

“Speaking the Truth in Love.” Ensign 6.4 (April 1976): 51–55. Reprinted in Dialogues With Myself, 49-56.

“A Separated Brother at St. Peters.” Deseret News, May 16, 1981, p. Dl .

“McEnroe and the Victory Over Self.” Deseret News, July 6, 1981, pp. D3. 5.

“Can Nations Love Their Enemies? An L.D.S. Theology of Peace.” Sunstone 7.6 (1982): 49–56; reprinted in The Sunstone Review, November/December 1983, 14–18.

“Keeping Faith With Poland.” Deseret News, February 24, 1983, p. Dl.

“Enduring.” Dialogue, 16.4 (Winter 1983): 103–14.

“Obedience, Integrity, and the Paradox of Selfhood.” Proceedings of the Symposia of the Association for Mormon Letters 1979–82, Provo, Utah, 1983: 1–18. Reprinted in slightly abridged version in Sunstone 8.3 (1983): 33–38.

“Joseph Smith and the Tragic Quest,” Proceedings of the Symposia of the Association for Mormon Letters 1979–82. Provo, Utah, 1983: 55–71.

“How Can God Be Both Good and Powerful?” Chapter in After 150 Years: The Latter-day Saints in Sesquicentennial Perspective. eds. Thomas G. Alexander and Jessie L. Embry. Midvale, Utah: Signature Books (1983).

“What It Means to Be a Mormon Christian,” BYU Today, Summer 1984.

“The Trouble with Excellence—or How to Value the ‘Less Honorable’ Gifts.” Chapter in Excellence. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book (1984), pp. 55–67.

“Fasting and Food, Not Weapons: A Mormon Response to Conflict.” BYU Studies 25.1 (Winter 1985): 141–55.

“’Lamanites’ and the Spirit of the Lord.” Dialogue 18.4 (Winter 1985): 25–32.

“A Small and Piercing Voice: The Sermons of Spencer W. Kimball.” BYU Studies 25.4 (1987): 1–14.

“On Finding God and Truth: From Hope to Knowledge to Skepticism to Faith.” Chapter in A Thoughtful Faith: Essays on Belief by Mormon Scholars. ed. Philip L. Barlow. Centerville, Utah: Canon Press, 1986. pp. 67–84.

“A Matter of Love: My Life with Dialogue.” Dialogue 20.1 (Spring 1987): 15–24.

“On Fidelity, Polygamy, and Celestial Marriage.” Dialogue 20.4 (Winter 1987): 138–54.

“Modern Acts of the Apostles, 1840: Mormon Literature in the Making.” BYU Studies 27.2 (1987): 1–17.

“Easter Weekend.” Dialogue 21.1 (Spring 1988): 19–30.

“On Saving the Constitution, Or Why Some Utah Mormons should Become Democrats.” Sunstone 12.3 (May 1988): 22–30.

“On Building the Kingdom with Dialogue.” Dialogue 21.2 (Summer 1988): 128–35.

“Let’s Renounce the Remaining Racism.” The Student Review 3.18 (1 February 1989): 6–7.

“Prior Restraint and Guilt By Association: Reflections on Academic Freedom at BYU.” The Student Review 3.28 (12 April 1989): 3; reprinted in “The Year in  Review” issue, 4.1 (20 September 1989): 15.

“Perfection and Progression: Two Complementary Ways to Talk about God.” BYU Studies 29.3 (Summer 1989): 40–47.

“Why Nephi Killed Laban: Reflections on the Truth of the Book of Mormon.” Dialogue 22.3 (Fall 1989): 32–51.

“Combatting Racism and Sexism at BYU:  An Open Letter to Faculty and Students.” The Student Review 4.3 (4 October 1989): 10.

“Provincial Anti-provincialism.” The Student Review 4.12 (13 December 1989): 8.

“Are All Alike unto God?: Prejudice against Blacks and Women in Popular Mormon Thought.” Sunstone 15.2 (Mar./ Apr. 1990): 21–31.

“On Trusting God, Or Why We Should Not Fight Iraq.” Sunstone 14.5 (Oct. 1990): 9–12.

“On Being Male and Melchizedek.” Dialogue 23.4 (Winter 1990): 64–79.

“Late Night Thoughts at the End of a War.” (letter to editor) Dialogue 24.2 (Summer 1991): 7–9.

“Healing and Making Peace—In the World and in the Church.” Sunstone 15.6 (December 1991): 36–46.

“The Spirit of Mercy at Christmas.” Chapter in The Magic of Christmas. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1992.

“Monte Cristo.” Wasatch Review International 2.1 (January 1993): 83–102.

“On Spectral Evidence.” Dialogue 26.1 (Spring 1993): 136–52.

“What Covenant Will God Receive in the Desert?”. Sunstone 17.2 (Sept. 1994): 26–34.

“‘No Respecter of Persons’: A Mormon Ethics of Diversity.” Dialogue 27.4 (Winter 1994): 79–102.

“Douglas Thayer’s Mr. Wahlquist in Yellowstone: A Mormon’s Christian Response to Wilderness.” BYU Studies 34.1 (1994): 52–72.

“Summer Solstice.” Sewanee Review 103.2 (Winter 1995): 41–59.

“Jacaranda.” Chapter in Eugene England, Making Peace: Personal Essays. Salt Lake City, Signature Books, 1995, pp. 107–30.

“Thou Shalt Not Kill.” Chapter in Eugene England, Making Peace: Personal Essays. Salt Lake City, Signature Books, 1995, pp. 157–75.

“Becoming a World Religion: Blacks, the Poor–All of Us.” Sunstone 21.2 (June-July 1998): 49–60.

“Danger on the Right! Danger on the Left!: The Ethics of Recent Mormon Fiction.” Dialogue 32.3 (Fall 1999), 13–30.

“Mission to Paradise.” BYU Studies 38.1 (1999), 170–85.

“Good Literature for a Chosen People.” Dialogue 39.1 (Spring 1999): 69–89.

“Why the Church Is As True As the Gospel.” (reprint with additional reflection) Sunstone 22.3/4 (June 1999): 61–69.

“Born Square: On Being Mormon, Western, and Human.” Literature and Belief 21.1 (2001): 275–94.

“On Being Mormon and Human.” Sunstone 118 (April 2001): 76–78.

“‘No Cause, No Cause’: An Essay Toward Reconciliation.” Sunstone 121 (January 2002): 31–39.

“The Weeping God of Mormonism.” Dialogue 35.1 (Spring 2002): 63–80.

This list still under construction.