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.
Friberg’s work gained prominence in the early to mid-twentieth century, during a transitional period in American culture, and the carved physiques of Friberg’s subjects highlight a fascination with the male form, celebrating hypermasculinity by exaggerating sexual difference: hard versus soft, active versus passive, and male versus female.
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…
It was a pleasure to read and review recent poetry collections by Darlene Young, Elizabeth Cranford Garcia, and Maureen Clark. Each poet in her own voice and with her own hand dissects, examines, and elucidates…
