Dialogue, and Me, at 50
September 13, 2016Dialogue: a Journal of Mormon Thought turns 50 this year. So do I, and the similarities don’t end there.
Dialogue: a Journal of Mormon Thought turns 50 this year. So do I, and the similarities don’t end there.
Dialogue has been hugely important in my life. In fact, I’m not sure I would have ever converted to Mormonism without it.” – Jana Riess
Who is speaking at our “Spirit of Dialogue” conference on September 30th at UVU? Speakers will include Dialogue luminaries Armand Mauss, Darius Gray, Alice Faulkner Burch, Ignacio Garcia, Gabrielle Blair, Patrick Mason, Meg Conly, Greg Prince, Michael Austin, Ben Park, Courtney Clark Kendrick, Paul Reeve, and Eric Samuelsen and more discussing LDS art, the issues surrounding Mormon groupthink, the place of Dialogue within Mormon studies and more. Find biographies of the presenters here.
What was the most read Dialogue pieces in 2015? How about Facebook?
Dialogue is entering its Jubilee year – can you believe it’s been five decades?
Mormon Matters present a Dialogue classics read by Curt Bench.
On May 16, we held a symposium in New York City. Called “Of One Body: The State of Mormon Singledom,” it was designed not as a typical Mormon singles conference (planned to encourage flirting and courtship), but as a serious discussion about the growing numbers of single Mormons and the falling rates of marriage within Mormonism.
The 2015 Eugene England Memorial Lecture was held Thursday, March 26th aat the Utah Valley Unversity. This year’s speaker was former Dialogue Editor Robert A. Rees who spoke on “Reimagining Restoration: Why Liberalism is the Ultimate Flowering of Mormonism.”
At this year’s Association for Mormon Letters Conference, Steven Peck’s Spring 2014 piece “Two-Dog Dose” won the AML’s Short Fiction Award.
The Board of Directors of Dialogue Foundation, publisher of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, has selected Dr. Boyd Jay Petersen to serve as the journal’s next editor. Petersen will succeed Kristine Haglund when her term as editor ends December 31, 2015.