For more articles like this, please visit the Fall 2018 Issue. “Ordained an elder by Ambrose Palmer, 25 Jan. 1836!” This document makes clear a significant seam of truth in Latter-day Saint history and storytelling.…
For more articles like this, please visit the Fall 2018 Issue. Being a black Latter-day Saint and knowing that Elijah Abel was ordained to the priesthood reinforces my belief that God is no respecter of…
For more articles like this, please visit the Fall 2018 Issue. It was around midday. 12:30 to be exact. You can have some hallucinatory experiences around that time. Especially when you haven’t eaten and the…
As Mormons, we raise our voices to decry as wholly immoral the forces of white supremacy, racism, and neo-Nazism that are becoming more visible and emboldened in the United States.
In the spirit of Gene’s writings, entries should relate to Latter-day Saint experience, theology, or worldview. Essays will be judged by noted Mormon authors and professors of literature. Winners will be notified by email and announced in our Winter issue and on Dialogue’s website. After the announcement, all other entrants will be free to submit their essays elsewhere.
Levi S. Peterson’s “Kid Kirby” from the Dialogue Summer 2016 issue won a 2016 Association for Mormon Letters award for best short fiction. In honor of this award, Dialogue has released the article early so that everyone can read it.
Christian Anderson, who has an article in the upcoming Spring Issue, takes a hard look at membership numbers after they were released in April 2017 conference.
Over at By Common Consent, Kevin Barney discusses “some fairly random examples of instincts that may have seemed sound in the past but, I would argue, no longer serve the institution well” including one regarding Dialogue.
Daniel Parkinson continues his research
and pleads “Can we please admit there is a problem? The solution is staring us in the face. We have to educate families about the harm that this rejection is having on their LGBTQ children of all ages.
Board member Patrick Mason discusses the role of Dialogue within Mormons Studies in this new podcast at LDS Perspectives.