Stephen Bradford

Steve Bradford’s mother served as the editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought from the basement while Steve was a teenager in that same basement (the walls – for better or worse – were thin). Simultaneously, Steve’s father served upstairs as the bishop of the Arlington (VA) Ward. This experience has colored Steve’s view of the world ever since. (See Bradford, Mary L.: “BIG D/Little d: The View from the Basement”, Dialogue 20 (Fall 1987): 13-23). Initially agreeing to a Dialogue board position while serving as bishop of the East Pasadena (CA) Ward, Steve retreated from the board when he realized time wouldn’t allow for him to be at once – upstairs and downstairs. Now recently released as bishop and having tagged along with his wife to be closer to an amazing granddaughter and her parents in Berkeley, CA, Steve is all-in on the board while continuing to practice law (until he gets it right) with a California-based law firm, and dabbling in other Mormon Studies ventures at Claremont Graduate University and the Graduate Theological Union.