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Smoot in New Light

The eight essays in this collection describe and interpret the US Senate’s investigation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during the Progressive Era. Nominally an investigative hearing on the election of Utah…

England’s Life of Paradox

The attacks of September 11, 2001 are a spectacular reminder that the struggle between religion and politics is alive and well in the twenty-first century. Eugene England’s life, which ended just weeks before those attacks,…

Establishing Zion in the Heat of Battle

On April 13, 2021, President Biden announced that the United States would be withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan, indicating a shift in American foreign policy in the Middle East. Saints at War: The Gulf War,…

An Assortment of Meditations

Samuel M. Brown’s Where the Soul Hungers is something of a grab bag of sundry reflections on the gospel. As Brown himself explains, the book is intended to be part “pure devotions” and part “philosophical…

Tender Rills

Podcast version of this piece. If Gods are poeming Kolob,if I am poeming God, if we arepoems to each other, A word is more than a destinationthan a path, than a map. A word is…

Element Volume 2 Issue 1

The Dialogue Foundation is proud to host the archives of Element: The Journal of the Society of Mormon Philosophy and Theology, which ran from 2006-2019. These volumes provide numerous invaluable articles from key thinkers in the early…

Element Volume 2 Issue 2

The Dialogue Foundation is proud to host the archives of Element: The Journal of the Society of Mormon Philosophy and Theology, which ran from 2006-2019. These volumes provide numerous invaluable articles from key thinkers in the early…

Element Volume 3 Issue 1 & 2

The Dialogue Foundation is proud to host the archives of Element: The Journal of the Society of Mormon Philosophy and Theology, which ran from 2006-2019. These volumes provide numerous invaluable articles from key thinkers in the early…