Personal Voices: A Celebration of Dialogue

Personal Voices
A Celebration of Dialogue
MARY L. BRADFORD, EDITOR
Paperback. 278 Pages. / 0-941214-57-5 / $9.95

In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Signature Books has reprinted twenty-four of the most significant and enriching personal essays that have appeared in the journal during the past two decades. Wishing to bring their faith into dialogue with the larger stream of Christian thought and with human experience as a whole, a small group of Latter-day Saints founded Dialogue in 1966 as an independent Mormon quarterly. They hoped the new journal would stimulate and sponsor excellence in literature and the arts; provide a forum for rational faith and faith-promoting knowledge, while sustaining a serious standard of objectivity, candor, and imagination; and offer Mormons the opportunity to develop their identity, uniqueness, and sense of purpose by expressing their spiritual heritage and moral vision to the community of humankind. For twenty years Dialogue's editors and contributors have encouraged a variety of viewpoints in expressing Mormon culture the relevance of their religion to secular life. The personal essays selected for inclusion in this collection reflect the experiences, observations, thinking, and recommendations of some of the best minds contemporary Mormonism has produced.

Mary Lythgoe Bradford, M.A., English, University of Utah, is the author of Leaving Home and Lowell L. Bennion; editor of Mormon Women Speak; and a contributor to Harvest, Tending the Garden, A Thoughtful Faith, A Little Lower than the Angels, and A Time to Weep and a Time to Sing. She is a former editor of Dialogue, and her own articles have appeared in BYU Today, This People, The Deseret News, The Journal of Pastoral Counseling, and elsewhere. She has received awards from the Association for Mormon Letters, the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies (the Evans Award), and (in grant form) the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies.