First Place: Times and Seasons
February 20, 2023Listen to the Out Loud Interview about this article here. They came to us just before spring arrived, at the same time I began putting seeds into the ground in my garden. Lettuce, spinach, arugula.…
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Third Place: All Things Both Temporal and Spiritual
February 20, 2023Listen to the Out Loud Interview about this article here. For by the power of my Spirit created I them; yea, all things both spiritual and temporal. —Doctrine & Covenants 29:31 The therapist I had…
Second Place: Pressed Palms
February 16, 2023Listen to the Out Loud Interview about this article here. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. —Romans 12:2 One spring weekend, with a six-month-old…
Queerness Is Mormonism Is Queerness Blaire Ostler, Queer Mormon Theology
February 12, 2023Queerness—the lived identity of LGBTQ+ and non-normative people—and Mormonism—the theological and social structures adhered to by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—always seem to be at odds. Blaire Ostler’s Queer Mormon Theology: An…
Letters to the Editor
February 9, 2023A Can of Worms, Sarah L. Smith
Response to Brigham D. Madsen, No. 1, Ed Kingsley
Response to Brigham D. Madsen, No. 2, Gerry L. Ensley
Response to Brigham D. Madsen, No. 3, Douglass F. Taber
Response to Brigham D. Madsen, No. 4, Gary Rummler
Letters to the Editor
February 8, 2023“Coming Out” Again, Joanna Brooks
Building the Kingdom with Total Honesty, Boyd Kirkland
Dilemmas Everywhere, Armand L. Mauss
A Warm, Grateful Feeling, Lane J. Wolfley
True Intolerance, Thomas G. Alexander
The Garden Atonement and the Mormon Cross Taboo
January 27, 2023Listen to the Out Loud Interview about this article here. Michael Reed’s 2012 book Banishing the Cross: The Emergence of a Mormon Taboo sets out an excellent account of the uncomfortable relationship between the Church…
The Production of the Book of Mormon in Light of a Tibetan Buddhist Parallel
January 27, 2023Dialogue 55.4 (Winter 2022): 41–83
Drawing on observations and suggestions from scholars of Tibetan Buddhism and Mormonism, this article compares the production of the Book of Mormon with that of the class of Tibetan Buddhist scripture known as gter ma (“Treasure,” pronounced “terma”)
Quoted at the Pulpit: Male Rhetoric and Female Authority in Fifty Years of General Conference
January 27, 2023Dialogue 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.
BODIES OF CHRIST WRITING CONTEST
January 18, 2023Editor’s Note: In 2021, Dialogue hosted a writing contest titled Bodies of Christ with the following parameters: Dialogue seeks submissions of poetry (up to 100 lines), short fiction (3500–6000 words), and personal voice (nonfiction, narrative…