Submission Deadline: January 15, 2024 Dialogue seeks to foster a deeper understanding of the complex and multifaceted concept of family, marriage, and kinship within the United States and global context of Latter-day Saint (LDS) culture…
The summer of 2021 brought a greatly anticipated event to the LDS-Mormon art community: the opening of the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts’s gallery in Manhattan. Its inaugural exhibition, Great Awakening: Vision and Synthesis in…
Enjoy this poem in audio version here. Maybe it was envy that churned inside meas I looked around the room. Wonderingwhat healthy Mormons felt instead of fear. My body forced everyone to consider what it meant to be sick in…
Listen to the audio version of this piece here. Content warning: This article contains references to disordered eating and bodily harm. Orlean Beginning in March 1935, Orlean Kingston documented her rigorous fasts and visionary experiences…
Renaissance scholar Ada Palmer estimates we know 1 percent of what happened five hundred years ago and that two-thirds of what we know is wrong. I have no reason to doubt her expertise—and every reason…
Melissa Dalton-Bradford presents the 82nd Dialogue Gospel Study. Melissa Dalton-Bradford is an author, public speaker, and co-founder of two non-profits: Mormon Women for Ethical Government (MWEG), a nonpartisan organization focused on watchdogging political leadership and engaging women…
Dialogue 55.4 (Winter 2021): 1–50
While much has changed for women in the Church over the last half-century, much remains the same. Women consistently make up less than 3 percent of quotations in general conference. They are still described in terms of their appearance and relationship status; sermons about how they should live are the domain of male authority; their own representatives in the Church spend much of their time at the pulpit repeating male leaders’ words.
On March 29-30, Utah Valley University hosted a “Mormonism and the Internet” Conference and it is now online via YouTube with sessions by Rosemary Avance , Buddy Blankenfeld, Joanna Brooks, Gideon Burton, David Charles, Alan Cooperman, John Dehlin, Greg Droubay, James Faulconer, Scott Gordon , Patrick Mason, Ardis E. Parshall, Jana Riess, David W. Scott, and our own Editor Kristine Haglund, who eloquently discusses the communities found within Bloggernacle, with brilliant insights on how women are forming online identities.
by Richard Sherlock As a pacifist for my entire adult life, I find the Dialogue call for papers too inviting to ignore. During the Vietnam War thirty-five years ago, I came to grips with what…
Dialogue 54.4 (Winter 2021): 35–70
When we assess Joseph Smith’s early trials as if the word “pretended” indicated deliberate deception on Joseph’s part, we miss the larger picture.