Dialogue artist Trevor Southey passes away
October 21, 2015Trevor Southey passed away yesterday.Joseph-Smith-three-views-e1374478814675Southey was an artist, sculptor, Mormon, gay man, husband, ex-husband, father and a host of other adjectives.
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Past, Present, and Possible Futures of Mormon Studies
September 28, 2015Brian Birch and Spencer Fluhman look at the “Past, Present, and Possible Futures of Mormon Studies” at this Mormon Matters podcast.
Coming to Terms with Folk Magic in Mormon History
August 9, 2015Kevin Barney gives his personal experience with “Coming to Terms with Folk Magic in Mormon History” in this post at By Common Consent
Mormonism: Future of Faith in America Pathoes Online Symposium
August 5, 2015Over at Pathoes, find the Mormonism: Future of Faith in America online symposium featuring many friends of Dialogue.
Black, White, and Mormon: A Conference on the Evolving Status of Black Saints within the Mormon Fold
July 28, 2015” First, on October 8, Lester Bush will be giving the Sterling McMurrin Lecture on “Looking Back, Looking Forward: Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine 42 Years Later.
A Preview of Voices for Equality: Ordain Women and Resurgent Mormon Feminism
July 7, 2015Check out this preview of “Voices for Equality: Ordain Women and Resurgent Mormon Feminism” including this chapter by Dialogue editor Kristine Haglund and Dialogue contributor Courtney L. Rabada “The Great Lever: Women and Changing Mission Culture in Contemporary Mormonism.”
Recap of “Of One Body: The State of Mormon Singledom”
June 25, 2015On May 16, we held a symposium in New York City. Called “Of One Body: The State of Mormon Singledom,” it was designed not as a typical Mormon singles conference (planned to encourage flirting and courtship), but as a serious discussion about the growing numbers of single Mormons and the falling rates of marriage within Mormonism.
Bob Rees gives the UVU Eugene England Memorial Lecture
April 15, 2015The 2015 Eugene England Memorial Lecture was held Thursday, March 26th aat the Utah Valley Unversity. This year’s speaker was former Dialogue Editor Robert A. Rees who spoke on “Reimagining Restoration: Why Liberalism is the Ultimate Flowering of Mormonism.”
Steven Peck's award-winning article "Two-Dog Dose"
March 31, 2015At this year’s Association for Mormon Letters Conference, Steven Peck’s Spring 2014 piece “Two-Dog Dose” won the AML’s Short Fiction Award.
Can members support same-sex marriage and remain in good standing?
March 17, 2015Taking a cue from Doctrine and Covenants 6:28, I thought I’d pull together and transcribe some of the recent discussions about whether or not members can support same-sex marriage and still remain in good standing.