The Dialogue Foundation’s Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Taylor Petrey, Associate Professor of Religion at Kalamazoo College, has been appointed the next Editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. Petrey holds…
Please join us on Friday for our Spirit of Dialogue conference at UVU and our gala at the Natural History Museum in Salt Lake City as we celebrate fifty years of Dialogue and look forward to the next fifty!
Dialogue is entering its Jubilee year – can you believe it’s been five decades?
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.
If I could only have one recording of Christmas music, this performance of Vaughan Williams’ Hodie would be it. Christmas for me is Milton in the voice of Janet Baker, and Hardy and Herbert in John Shirley-Quirk’s lugubrious baritone.
The past year has been an outstanding one for Dialogue. I hope you have found articles that speak to you. I must admit that I often turn first to the book reviews—it is a way for me to obtain thoughtful insight into the best of the new Mormon-themed books that are published each year….
Announced in the just-released Summer 2012 issue, Dialogue’s Best of 2011 Awards.
For Best Article: Taylor Petrey,“Toward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology”–Winter
For Fiction: David G. Pace, “American Trinity”–Summer
In this issue, Armand Mauss looks back over the decades since his book The Angel and the Beehive was published, with its seminal theory of LDS assimilation and retrenchment, while Fred Gedicks looks forward to project what kinds of assimilation might be possible for Mormonism over the next several decades. Carmon Hardy looks back at the long history of polygamy and its shadow, while Taylor Petrey takes first steps towards a post-heterosexual Mormon theology.
The October 2011 issue of Harper’s Magazine features as its cover article a lengthy, provocative, at times insightful, but mostly wholly tendentious anti-Mormon screed by Chris Lehmann, entitled “Pennies from Heaven.”
Celebrate “Eugene England’s Life and Legacy” with this series of 4 podcasts recently released by Mormon Stories.