Essays

No More Strangers And Foreigners: One Latter-day Saint Examines The Question Of Homosexuality In The Church
LDS Sacrament Meeting talk delivered on May 19, 1991.

In a Dark Time the Eye Begins to See: Personal Reflections on Homosexuality among the Mormons at the Beginning of a New Millennium
This paper was originally presented at Family Fellowship, Salt Lake City, 27 February 2000.

“‘Lord, To Whom Shall We Go?” The Challenges of Discipleship and Church Membership”
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought  (fall 2006), 103-114.

The Goodness of the Church”
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 41:1 (Summer 2008) 162-173.

Bearing Our Crosses Gracefully: Sex and the Single Mormon
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought

Why Mormons Should Celebrate Holy Week
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought  37:3 (Fall 2004), 151-167.

America’s War on Terrorism: One Latter-day Saint’s Perspective
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 36:1 (Spring 2003), 11-32.

Monologues and Dialogues: A Personal Perspective
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 20:2 (Summer 1987)

The Book of Mormon and Automatic Writing,”
Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 15:1 (2006), 4-17, 68-70.

Lord, To Whom Shall We Go?’ The Challenges of Discipleship and Church Membership,”
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (fall 2006), 103-114.

An Open Letter to Nathan Oman,”
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 39:2 (Summer 2006), 173-177.

The Possibilities of Dialogue,
First published in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 9, no. 3 (Autumn 1974): 4-5.

“Introduction,”
Proving Contraries: A Collection of Writings in Honor of Eugene England, ed. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2005), xiii-xx.

Irony in the Book of Mormon,”
Journal of Book of Mormon Studies: Volume – 12, Issue – 2, Pages: 20–31, 111–12 Provo, Utah: Maxwell Institute, 2003

Joseph Smith and the American Renaissance,
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 35:3 (Fall 2002), 83-112.

“‘Cooperating in Works of the Spirit’: Notes Toward a Higher Dialogue,”
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 11:1 (Spring 1978), 13-17.

The Gospel, Mormonism and American Culture,”
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 8:2 (Summer 1973)

Love and the Christian Imagination
Originally given as the keynote devotional at the Affirmation National Conference in Seattle, Washington, 21 October 2012.

Finding Christ at St Thomas
An address given first on May 17, 2011

Families Are Forever… and for Now
Remarks made at the opening of the 2013 Sunstone Symposium in Salt Lake City, Utah, on July 31, 2013

Families Are Forever- An Introduction to the Film
Presented at the opening of the 2013 Sunstone Symposium in Salt Lake City, Utah, on July 31, 2013

Our Mother in Heaven,”
Sunstone Magazine, April 1991

Salt Lake: We Have A Problem,”
Originally published on the No More Strangers blog, November 2013

Twelve Years: Black Slaves and Gays,
Originally published on the No More Strangers blog, December 14, 2013

Power and Powerlessness: A Personal Perspective,”
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought

Eugene England: Our Brother in Christ”: Eugene England Foundation
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 35, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 27-33.