Winter 2023
The Winter 2023 is bookended by art articles, beginning with "Correlating Orthodoxy and Style: Institutionally 'Approved' Christ-Centered Art in LDS Visual Resources and Meetinghouses, 1990–2021" by Noel Carmack and "Racial Innocence and the Christus-Based Latter-day Saints Symbol" by M. David Huston and ending with "The Book of Mormon Art Catalog: An Interview with Director Jennifer Champoux" by Dialogue art editor Margaret Olsen Hemming. And find a lovely personal essay, gorgeous poetry, some insightful reviews and new fiction.
Religious images have long been used in Latter-day Saint worship and instruction. Paintings, illustrations, and graphic works served a devotional function among the early Church members. Not only did the Latter-day Saints in Nauvoo use…
On April 4, 2020, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) formally adopted an institutional symbol that is now prominently displayed on the Church logo and is imprinted on Church publications, websites, videos,…
Listen to a conversation about this piece here. JACOBA:[1] I have my genealogical abilities, and I wield them as I see fit. JASON: And you saw fit to marry your son to Chalo’s daughter? JACOBA:…
Listen to the Out Loud version of the piece here. Masked and gowned, Isa stood in the corner of the operating room next to his son Cael. Three surgeons stood around the operating table and…
During Moroni’s 1823 visit to Joseph Smith, he repeats the prophecy written in the fourth chapter of Malachi, although with a slight change in wording.[1] Later Joseph interpreted Malachi’s prophecy as referring to a “welding…
My father has appeared—not in a dream—and shown me where to haul the plates off to,a harder task now that I had the recordsof Mormon whole and Ether shortened upand needed a bigger box to…
For my younger children So you will know, here is a recounting of the quantuminfluences, the little arcs of familiar experience thataccelerate within your own beings, tickling the protonsof personality, exciting your identities into existence,top…
Rinse out the rag while you stand at the door; there is no more ripe fruit at this point in the season. Those wagons that rise on the opposite bank are filled with what they…
Soon the deer will leave the mountains.Search our garden for vegetation.Bite the tops off tea roses, their teeth leaving scars.In the yard the ash tree dropsleaves into the browning grass. My husband rakes around each…
F. LaMond Tullis’s Grass Roots in Mexico: Stories of Pioneering Latter-day Saints explores the lives of nineteen people who influenced the founding and growth of Mormonism in Mexico. Tullis is a retired professor of political…
It is a common adage that Mormons are a “peculiar people.” The phrase, taken from the Bible, is meant to imply that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints paved their own…
When I began analyzing literature in high school, I was trained to see a poem as a thing made perfect by intent, by genius, an idea that prepared me to become adept at finding an…
While some critique oral history methods, Caroline Kline’s Mormon Women at the Crossroads: Global Narratives and the Power of Connectedness takes significant strides to substantiate the benefits of the method. Among these critiques are the…
I once had a bishop who was as guileless as he was faithful, a good and generous man who worked hard and loved us, his ward members, tirelessly. He liked to tell our ward’s young…
MOH: Please introduce the project and tell us a bit about how it works. JC: Thank you, I’m so excited to share this great new resource! The Book of Mormon Art Catalog is a comprehensive…
