Winter 2025 Issue Overview

In this Winter 2025 Issue Overview, Dialogue co-editors Margaret Olsen Hemming and Caroline Kline are joined by the journal’s subject editors to introduce the latest issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought and highlight several of its most compelling contributions.

The conversation spotlights Ryan M. Springer’s article on inversion and heresy in the Mormon endowment and Thomas W. Murphy’s examination of the Book of Mormon’s misappropriation of the Iroquois Great Law of Peace. Editors also discuss Charlotte Hansen Terry’s personal essay “Roots and Responsibilities,” which reflects on faith, obligation, and inheritance, and Sheldon Lawrence’s fiction Heaven Will Find You, which appears in excerpted form in this issue.

Along the way, the editors gesture toward the issue’s broader offerings, including new poetry, book reviews, and a sermon by Justin Goodson, “Christmas is Music.” Together, they offer listeners a guided entry into the questions, creativity, and conversations shaping Dialogue’s Winter 2025 issue.