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…
Update: you can now watch Terryl Givens and Matthew Grow discuss the life and theological musings of Parley P. Pratt courtesy of this YouTube video from Benchmark Books.
Listen to Claremont Chair of Mormon Studies Patrick Mason discuss and dissect anti-mormonism, polygamy, current politics, Native American, African-Americans, religious pluralism, slavery, the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the Cane Creek Massacre and much more in this new podcast from Research on Religion.
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.
In the recently released 11th episode of “FAIR Conversations” host Blair Hodges interviews historian Claudia Bushman. Of special note to Dialogue readers, Claudia discusses her involvement with the “Pink Issue” and her feelings on feminism and women’s issues in the church.
President Monson broke new virtual ground with this commemorative essay on 9/11, officially becoming the first president of the LDS Church to blog.
Patrick Mason, newly-appointed Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University, will address the Miller-Eccles study group on September 16th and 17th.
Associate Editor Matthew Bowman, recently appointed Assistant Professor of History at Hampden-Sydney College, is working on an introduction to Mormonism for a general audience, titled American Revelation: The Making of the Mormons to be published by Random House in time for the Iowa caucuses. The book is making news even in advance of its publication.
The Association for Mormon Letters held its annual conference March 25-26, 2011. Recordings of some of the excellent sessions are available here.