Continuing the Dialogue: Celebrating Ten Masterpieces by Eugene England

edited by Robert A. Rees and Thomas B. Griffith

Available late fall 2026

Book Description

What does it mean to be a thoughtful, faithful disciple in a complicated world? Few Latter-day Saint writers explored that question with the intellectual courage, spiritual depth, and humanity of Eugene England. In Continuing the Dialogue: Celebrating Ten Masterpieces by Eugene England, Robert A. Rees and Thomas B. Griffith bring together ten of England’s most powerful essays—writings that challenged readers to think more deeply about God, faith, the Atonement, peace, reconciliation, scholarship, literature, and what it truly means to follow Jesus Christ. Each essay is accompanied by a fresh reflection from a leading Latter-day Saint scholar, revealing new dimensions of England’s thought and demonstrating why his voice continues to matter.

Eugene England’s message is more timely than ever. In an age of polarization, uncertainty, and contention, England’s call for a faith that embraces both rigorous thought and Christlike love offers a compelling alternative to simplistic answers and hardened divisions. He believed disciples should do more than simply repeat inherited truths—they should wrestle with difficult questions, seek understanding, listen to others, and translate conviction into compassionate action. Continuing the Dialogue invites longtime admirers to rediscover England’s finest writing and introduces a new generation to a remarkable voice whose vision of faith, peace, intellectual freedom, and human dignity remains urgently relevant. For anyone who wants a richer, more thoughtful, and more Christ-centered approach to Latter-day Saint discipleship, this is a book worth reading—and returning to.

Contributing scholars include Richard L. Bushman, Fiona Givens, Terryl Givens, Kristine Haglund, George Handley, Clifton Jolley, Patrick Mason, Kylie Nielson Turley, Rosalynde Frandsen Welch, Matthew Wickman, and Margaret Blair Young. 

About the Editors:

Until his retirement in 2012, Robert A. Rees was a visiting professor and the director of Latter-day Saint/Mormon studies at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He has taught at three UC campuses and at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, where he was a Fulbright Professor (1995–96). He is the cofounder and board member of the Bountiful Children’s Foundation and cofounder and president of FastForward for the Planet, a nonprofit initiative addressing climate change. His most recent book is Imagining and Reimagining the Restoration.

Thomas B. Griffith was a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and is now a fellow at the Wheatley Institute at Brigham Young University, a lecturer at Harvard Law School, and a senior research associate at Pembroke College–University of Oxford. He has published articles in outlets as varied as the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, and Wayfare and opinion pieces in the Deseret News.

More Information:

270 pages
ISBN 978-1-58958-854-7 (paperback)