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Topic pages: Joseph Smith

2019: Steven Shields, “Joseph Smith and Sidney Ridgon: Co-founders of a Movement” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 52 No. 3 (2019): 1–18.  Shields argues that if you deny or dismiss Sidney Ridgon’s contributions to…

Topic pages: Polygamy

2019: Blaire Ostler, “Queer Polygamy” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 52 No. 1 (2019): 33–43. Ostler addresses the problems with what she terms the “Standard Model of Polygamy.” She discusses how these problems might…

Topic pages: Temples

2019: Margaret Blair Young, “Patience, Faith, and the Temple in 2019” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 52 No. 1(2019): 169–178. Young shares her testimony of temple work even though she found some wording in…

Topic pages: Book of Mormon Studies

Podcasts:  Dialogue Topics Pages Podcast: Book of Mormon, Part 1 Dialogue Topics Pages Podcast: Book of Mormon, Part 2 2020: Elizabeth Fenton; Brian M. Hauglid,; Michael Austin, “Dialogue Book Review Roundtable: Visions in a Seer…

Who Is Emma Smith? Compiled by Melody Newey Johnson

For our Dialogue Gospel Study (14 March 2021) on Doctrine and Covenants 25, Melody Newey Johnson asked participants to write down a word, words, or phrases that came to mind when they thought of Emma…

Topic pages: Feminism

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Topic Pages: Race Issues

2019: Rebecca de Schweinitz, “There is no Equality”: William E Berrett, BYU, and healing the Wounds of Racism in the Latter- Day Saint Past and Present” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 52 No. 3 (2019):62–83.…

Topic Pages: Deification

2006: Kirk D. Hagen: “Eternal Progression in a Multiverse: An Explorative Mormon Cosmology,” Dialogue 38.1 (Summer 2005): 1– 45. This article is an examination of the Mormon doctrine of eternal progression within the context of…

Topic Pages: First Vision

2020: Steven C. Harper, “First Vision: Memory and Mormon Origins.” Dialogue Lectures Podcast #48.  Harper discusses how the principles of memory may have influenced Joseph Smith as he recorded his multiple First Vision accounts. Harper essentially…