Fall 2025 Issue Overview

In this episode of Dialogue Out Loud, the editorial team comes together to introduce the Fall 2025 issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. From groundbreaking scholarship to moving creative work, the editors walk listeners through the range of content in this season’s issue.Highlights include Suzanne E. Greco’s critical examination of men’s violence against women and girls in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Matthew L. Harris’s fascinating study of Ezra Taft Benson, W. Cleon Skousen, and their appeals to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in the name of “saving the Constitution,” and Colby Townsend’s deep dive into the role of secret societies in Joseph Smith’s rewritten scripture.The issue also features poetry, personal essays, new fiction, six book reviews, and a powerful sermon by Dialogue co-editor Margaret Olsen Hemming titled “Where Are We Standing?”