Then a quarter of a century old, Dialogue at that time was already the grande dame of thoughtful Mormon publications. Today we take it for granted that there can be a proliferation of Mormon voices—we have untold numbers of Mormon blogs, websites, and podcasts as well as print publications. But back then, if you were of a questioning mindset you pretty much had just Dialogue and Sunstone to keep you sane.
And I was of a questioning mindset. I wouldn’t say that I needed to know the answers to all of my questions; I knew enough about faith even at that age to understand that answers aren’t always possible or even desirable. But I needed to know that there was a community of questioners, an entire subchurch of folks like me, who followed up every statement of “I believe!” with an equally hearty “Help thou mine unbelief!”
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