Taylor Petrey’s ambitious, rigorous, and enlightening new book, Queering Kinship in the Mormon Cosmos, wields the concept of kinship as a sort of skeleton key to unlock the faith’s teachings about gender difference, sexuality, family…
When I was invited to review Points of Tangency, I had a moment of anxiety. The blurb hit a little too close to home: “Scott Russell Morris, a closeted queer Mormon, tells the story of…
I was hesitant when I was asked to write a review of Nathan Kitchen’s memoir The Boughs of Love: Navigating the Queer Latter-day Saint Experience During an Ongoing Restoration. I consider Nathan to be a…
In Dictates of Conscience, Laurie Lee Hall offers us a searingly honest, spiritually rich, and beautifully written memoir. She allows us deep access to her head, heart, emotions, as well as her testimony of Jesus…
I have a niece who is deutan colorblind, meaning she has trouble distinguishing between red and green. Even when she and I are looking at the same things, we see them quite differently because of our bodies—specifically our eyes. I don’t see her difference as a deficiency, and in fact, I am fascinated by hearing how she experiences the world. She has a unique perspective, and while I will never experience it, I try to understand it.
The protests of 2019 and 2020 at Brigham Young University (BYU) stand out as a notable period of rupture within an otherwise doctrinally strict and culturally conventional institution. Often pulling up to three hundred student participants, these protests marked a watershed moment for LGBTQ+ discourse at the conservative flagship of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
A tan, bare-chested man stands in the foreground to the right, half turned away from the viewer. His right foot is perched on a rock, causing his studded leather kilt to hike up, exposing a…
On a late October afternoon, as I stood on my parents’ driveway in the pleasantly chilled autumn air, a tree applauded me. I was twenty-one years old. Just days before, I’d returned home from my mission, too ill to be of any use in that regard. It had been a doomed endeavor from the beginning, but I didn’t know that then. What I did know was that I was home, wearing jeans and no nametag, companionless, and relieved beyond measure for my honorable and very early release.
Fiction Editors’ Note: As fiction editors at Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, we’re excited to showcase two chapters from Sheldon Lawrence’s novel Heaven Will Find You. The novel follows a man who learns that…
Matthew Harris has provided the Mormon community with a gift: Second-Class Saints is a substantial work of scholarship based on enormous archival research and makes a compelling case concerning the Church of Jesus Christ of…