Dialogue Editor Search Announcement
May 20, 2019Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought has long served as the journal of record for the intellectual and cultural life of the Mormon people. Thanks to five decades of work by editors, authors, and the…
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2019 EUGENE ENGLAND ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS
May 13, 2019This year, the committee judging the Eugene England essay contest was impressed by the abundance of beautifully written, thought-provoking essays we received. While the committee selected three winners, they also nominated seven honorable mentions. First…
NORMA: an excerpt from The Encore by Charity Tillemann-Dick
April 22, 2019The mid-November darkness settles early in the afternoon. As my window dims, a tall man with a chocolate complexion peeks through the door. “Charity,” his rich baritone voice fills my small room, “I’m one of…
Video: Race, Lineage, and the 1920s-1940s Genealogical Society of Utah
March 27, 2019Race, Lineage, and the 1920s-1940s Genealogical Society of Utah As a complement to Dialogue’s fall 2018 issue commemorating the end of the Church’s race-based restrictions, we offer an audio-with-slides presentation by Stirling Adams of “Mormon…
Review: The Call to Empathy in Elizabeth Garcia’s Stunt Double: A Seminar in Three Bodies
March 14, 2019By Tyler Chadwick Elizabeth Garcia. Stunt Double. Georgetown, Kentucky: Finishing Line Press, 2016. 31 pp. Paper: $14.49. ISBN: 9781944251833. Preliminaries Prose will not capture some people, the way they drift. (1) Hence, poetry:…
Hannah, I Miss You by Miriam Wagstaff
February 12, 2019This article is in conjunction with the art featured in the new 2018 Winter Issue. Life is fleeting and fragile—you never know when it might flicker and go out. Like a quivering leaf in November,…
Q&A with Quincy D. Newell
February 4, 2019(This Question and Answer took place between Dialogue and Quincy D. Newell, an associate professor of religious studies at Hamilton College and co-editor of the Mormon Studies Review. Dr. Newell recently finished her new book,…
Elijah Abel Find – "A significant seam of truth in Latter-day Saint history"
January 31, 2019For more articles like this, please visit the Fall 2018 Issue. “Ordained an elder by Ambrose Palmer, 25 Jan. 1836!” This document makes clear a significant seam of truth in Latter-day Saint history and storytelling.…
Elijah Abel Find – Why This Matters
January 31, 2019For more articles like this, please visit the Fall 2018 Issue. Being a black Latter-day Saint and knowing that Elijah Abel was ordained to the priesthood reinforces my belief that God is no respecter of…
The Epiphany by Melodie Jackson
January 29, 2019For more articles like this, please visit the Fall 2018 Issue. It was around midday. 12:30 to be exact. You can have some hallucinatory experiences around that time. Especially when you haven’t eaten and the…