Dialogue has long been a home for important scholarship on Heavenly Mother. In the next few weeks, we are publishing a special issue, “Heavenly Mother in Critical Context.” Sign up for our newsletter to be…
Taylor Petrey traces the development of doctrine about gender and sexuality within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Find all Fireside with Blair Hodges episodes from Season 1 here.
Few figures in the development of Mormon studies during the late-twentieth century are more significant than D. Michael Quinn. Educated at Brigham Young University, the University of Utah, and Yale University, Quinn was among scholars…
On July 24, Utah celebrates the state holiday of Pioneer Day, in commemoration and honor of the Mormon pioneers. With a hallowed and complicated history, pioneers are a mainstay in the history of Mormonism. Below…
by Adam McLain Netflix recently released a three-part documentary about the document forgery that occurred in Salt Lake City in the 1980s. Titled Murder Among the Mormons, the documentary shows what happened when documents like…
Podcast 2022: “A History of Abortion in Utah” at RadioWest, date May 6, 2022. In a thoroughly red, deeply religious state like Utah, you’d be forgiven for thinking abortion had always been frowned upon. But…
For more on Mother in Heaven, please see the newly released Spring 2022 Issue. By Linda Hoffman Kimball The Dialogue Foundation Board was thrilled to honor three artists for their work in the 2021 Certain…
We are seeking research-based articles, personal essays, roundtable discussions, fiction, poetry, and art on “Health and Healing in the Mormon Tradition.” The submissions will be considered for a special issue of the journal that will…
2019: Steven Shields, “Joseph Smith and Sidney Ridgon: Co-founders of a Movement” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 52 No. 3 (2019): 1–18. Shields argues that if you deny or dismiss Sidney Ridgon’s contributions to…
2019: Blaire Ostler, “Queer Polygamy” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 52 No. 1 (2019): 33–43. Ostler addresses the problems with what she terms the “Standard Model of Polygamy.” She discusses how these problems…