The Early Twentieth Century Temples
April 20, 2018Dialogue 14.1 (Spring 1981): 9–19
Anderson shares how temple architecture changed starting with the Salt Lake Temple.
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Questioning the Immorality of Coffee
August 29, 2023In 1967, Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon. Before that, women weren’t allowed to enter marathons. There’s an iconic photo of Switzer just a few miles into the race…
Honorable Mention: Butterflies
February 20, 2023Trying to get to the nursery proper and all of the blooming plants—bright colors, heady smells, early summer at its best—Mona almost walked past his table. It was one of those fold-up numbers with foldout…
The Enduring Vertigo of the Elect Lady Libbie Grant, The Prophet’s Wife
February 20, 2023Of the legacy of Joseph Smith, historian Bernard DeVoto wrote in 1936, “The vision perishes; it is the vertigo that endures.” Reading the novel The Prophet’s Wife by Libbie Grant is to feel that same…
Mt. Rainier Sanctification
September 2, 2022Listen to the podcast version here. For nearly three hours, I’d been trying unsuccessfully to sleep. It was definitely not the most comfortable bed I’d ever had—only a thin yellow and silver accordion-style pad separated…
Lavina Fielding Anderson (1944-2022)
October 31, 2023We note the passing of Lavina Fielding Anderson a former contributor and copyeditor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought . Read some of her work on her author page. We are featuring scholars and…
Parallelomania and the Study of Latter-day Scripture: Confirmation, Coincidence, or the Collective Unconscious?
March 29, 2018Dialogue 33.2 (Summer 2001):139–173
This article looks at some of the ways parallels have been used by Nibley in the exposition of latter-day scripture, the types of parallels employed, and some of the problems that arise from this comparative exercise.
Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46: A Preliminary Demographic Report
April 10, 2018Dialogue 27.1(Spring 1994): 1–72
Smith discusses the importance of plural marriage in Nauvoo to church history. He shows that after Joseph Smith passed away, Nauvoo polygamy numbers rose.
“White” of “Pure”: Five Vignettes
April 4, 2018Dialogue 29.4 (Winter 1996): 119–135
The Book of Mormon variously uses “white” and “pure” in the same verse in different editions. This article traces the history of those changes, who was behind them, and why.
The Struggle for Female Authority in Biblical and Mormon Tradition
March 13, 2018Dialogue 48.2 (Summer 2015): 1–57
Although race and gender are connected in 2 Nephi 26:33, the historical origins of the gender ban have not yet been addressed with the same degree of attention in Church discourse.