For more on Mother in Heaven, please see the newly released Spring 2022 Issue. By Linda Hoffman Kimball The Dialogue Foundation Board was thrilled to honor three artists for their work in the 2021 Certain Women Art Show, which featured the theme “Reflections on a Mother in Heaven.” The first is Heather Graham for herRead More »
Taylor Petrey traces the development of doctrine about gender and sexuality within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Find all Fireside with Blair Hodges episodes from Season 1 here.
During 2021, the Dialogue Foundation published four issues of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, continued to produce Dialogue Gospel Study, and produced the Dialogue Topics Podcast. Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought Our Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter issues contain cutting edge scholarship on topics like Mormonism and Indigeneity, the history of Joseph Smith,Read More »
Few figures in the development of Mormon studies during the late-twentieth century are more significant than D. Michael Quinn. Educated at Brigham Young University, the University of Utah, and Yale University, Quinn was among scholars who revisited and revised the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He worked as a researcherRead More »
D. Michael Quinn (1944–2021) was a stalwart scholar of Mormonism who found an academic home in the pages of Dialogue. We honor his legacy by collecting his articles on this page. His work in Dialogue shows three threads of research: the narrative of early plural marriage and sexuality, Church authority and power, and the twentieth-centuryRead More »
by Adam McLain Netflix recently released a three-part documentary about the document forgery that occurred in Salt Lake City in the 1980s. Titled Murder Among the Mormons, the documentary shows what happened when documents like the salamander letter began to appear in the field and business of Mormon documents and archival material. While the documentaryRead More »
by Madison S. Harris1 Over the years my devout Mormon grandparents have given my family and me a year’s supply of MREs, dried foods, and several 72-hour emergency kits, all of which sits in our basement today collecting dust. We are lapsed Mormons and haven’t attended church in years, but my grandparents love us enoughRead More »
We are excited to offer a Spanish version of “Multiculturalism as Resistance: Latina Migrants Navigate U.S. Mormon Space” alongside our English version. Click here for the full article. Nos complace ofrecer una versión en español de “LA RESISTENCIA DEL MULTICULTURALISMO:INMIGRANTES LATINAS NAVEGAN ESPACIOS MORMONESEN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.” Haga clic aquí para ver elRead More »
Dear Friends of Dialogue, I am asking for your financial support. We have survived and thrived in a diverse market by providing a forum for measured scholarship, vibrant arts and culture, and mature leadership, attracting the top scholars and literary voices of our generation. We need your support to continue. The vision of establishing aRead More »
As part of our 2021 special issue on Indigeneity and Mormon Studies, we will include a roundtable on the problematic legacy of Christopher Columbus. On this day the United States celebrates Christopher Columbus, here is a piece of this upcoming roundtable: “I Am Giving Columbus No More of My Time by Roni Jo Draper (Yurok).”Read More »