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Patheos Symposium on Mormon Feminism

This week the religion website Patheos is hosting a discussion on Mormon feminism. Participants include Dialogue’s editor, Kristine Haglund, Board member Claudia Bushman, and Editorial Board members Neylan McBaine and Melissa Proctor. Enjoy! And be…

KUER Interview

I sat down for an utterly terrifying chat with Doug Fabrizio a few weeks ago. (Actually, I just sat down in a studio in Boston with a giant microphone, and he sat in his studio…

In this Version of Autumn

by Dixie Partridge It’s as if the fields of five decades have been broomed clean—dry as straw. But in the border woods, ground holds scent: leaf-humus and pine, an after-hint of smoke, or ash. Evening:…

Joanna Brooks at Miller-Eccles

Dr. Joanna Brooks, associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University, will address the Miller-Eccles Study Group in Villa Park, CA on October 15, and in Flintridge, CA on October 16.…

General Conference–LIVE

Dialogue’s affiliated blog, By Common Consent, will be liveblogging General Conference, with real-time coverage from the Conference Center and lots of discussion, both serious and silly, in the comment section. Can’t quite tell what color…

Jana Riess to address Miller-Eccles Group

Scholar, author, Dialogue Board member and master-tweeter Jana Riess will speak to gatherings of the Miller-Eccles Study Group in Claremont and Orange County, California on September 17th and 18th. Jana is the author of such…

No Longer as Strangers

On August 30th, the LDS Newsroom posted an announcement that Church officials are involved in talks with Chinese government officials in an effort to “regularize” church functions in China. The following essay from our Fall…

What The Church Means To People Like Me

by Richard D. Poll Originally published in Winter 1967 A natural reaction to my title—since this is not a testimony meeting in which each speaker is his own subject—might be, “Who cares?” For who in…

About My Conversion: Directions to a Nonbeliever

by Anne Elizabeth Berbert Originally published in Fall/Winter 2001 Run your finger across the arc of my cheekbone. Notice how it curves like the hull of Noah’s ark that propelled life through earth’s watery death.…