Fall 2025
In the Fall 2025 Issue find groundbreaking scholarship and moving creative work. 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, four book reviews, and a powerful sermon by Dialogue co-editor Margaret Olsen Hemming titled “Where Are We Standing?” Purchase an individual issue here. And click here for an overview of the issue by our knowledgeable subject editors!
An undercurrent of violence against women and girls (VAWG) exists in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Church professes commitment to support victims of sexual abuse and its declared policy of zero…
When Mormon apostle Ezra Taft Benson moved to the nation’s capital in 1953 to begin his duties as the Secretary of Agriculture, he had a secret to keep. The president of the Church of Jesus…
The rise of anti-Masonry was a significant historical and political occurrence in the United States in the late 1820s while Joseph Smith, Jr. worked on the Book of Mormon in 1829. Scholars often invoke anti-Masonry as crucial early nineteenth-century context for understanding the composition of Smith’s early scriptural projects, and even early believers in Smith’s claims saw and understood these connections.
Oh Ellie, how to start? I keep thinking about the temple. I guess I’ll start there. I put my temple clothes and my garments in a bag and buried the bag in the back of…
As teenagers, my friend Brian and I would sit in front of our Latter-day Saint chapel in New Jersey, watching men in yarmulkes and dark-haired women in sheitels and black dresses walk to and from…
It is a great irony of my life that my wife identified as queer but I was the one that felt sexually trapped. We were in a mixed-orientation marriage. She is asexual, or Ace, and…
Watching the boy rage into being
I recall the parting restraints
Arranged through infancy ascending
Through tantrum to disenchantment
I feel your breath upon my neck—the heat
and dampness of each sigh, the way each pant,
each lungful pulls at me. Your eagerness
echoes throughout the lonely dark. A fear
The book Missionary Interests: Protestant and Mormon Missions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, edited by David Golding and Christopher Cannon Jones, provides a significant contribution to the historiography of Christian missions by comparatively examining…
Too frequently, I have the experience of anxiously awaiting Sunday School to start so I can ask about a text from the week’s reading that’s relevant to what’s happening in the world, only to be…
According to Oxford University Press, Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader is “the first comprehensive critical examination of Mormon art.” This grand claim stakes out the territory that the book purports to cover: It presents…
In the nineteenth century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints captured the French imagination, making Mormons and Mormonism prevalent themes in journalism, art, literature, politics, and popular culture. In Marianne Meets the Mormons:…
In the most recent general conference, President Russell M. Nelson announced seventeen new temples that will be built in upcoming years. As we know, the process of building a temple takes a very long time, even…
Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader is the first comprehensive critical examination of Latter-day Saint art. In this interview, transcribed and edited for length from a podcast conducted upon publication, Glen Nelson interviews coeditors Mason Kamana Allred and Amanda Beardsley about the volume.
