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Dialogue's 2012 Christmas Advent Countdown

December 11, 2012

Happy Holidays from Dialogue Journal!

As a special advent-themed treat, Dialoguejournal.com will be featuring holiday-flavored offerings from it’s archives leading up to Christmas Day.
Today’s offering: “A Flicker of Hope in Conflict’s Moral Twilight“ a personal essay from Iraq by Matthew Bolton
Here’s a taste:
“From these passages, we see that the Christmas story is not a sugary fairy tale. It is a story that cries out from the depths of a people’s despair,
“Enough is enough!” This story does not focus on the comings and goings of the celebrities of the day. It is a story about a God who so loved the
world, who so cared for the lowly, the poor, the forgotten invisible people of this world that s/he took on their wretched form and dwelt among them—among us.”
Click to see all the 2012 Christmas countdown features.

On Racism and the Mormon Church and Response

August 22, 2012

Early this week, scholar John Turner presented an opinion piece in the New York Times on “Why Race Is Still a Problem for Mormons.” Turner, who has a new biography out on Brigham Young, says “The church could begin leaving those problems behind if its leaders explained that their predecessors had confused their own racist views with God’s will and that the priesthood ban resulted from human error and limitations rather than a divine curse. Given the church’s ecclesiology, this step would be difficult. Mormons have no reason to feel unusually ashamed of their church’s past racial restrictions, except maybe for their duration. Their church, like most other white American churches, was entangled in a deeply entrenched national sin. Still, acknowledging serious errors on the part of past prophets inevitably raises questions about the revelatory authority of contemporary leaders….

UPDATED WITH VIDEOS: Multicultural Mormonism Conference: Religious Cohesion in a New Era of Diversity

May 15, 2017


The 2017 Mormon Studies Conference is themed “Multicultural Mormonism: Religious Cohesion in a New Era of Diversity” and was held March 30 and 31st at Utah Valley University. Find videos of the presentations here.
This conference explored multicultural and intercultural interactions within Mormonism, focusing on issues surrounding ethnicity, race, and class; and with an eye toward the future of Mormonism as a global religion.
It included presentations by Gina Colvin, Ignacio Garcia, Janan Graham-Russell, Moroni Benally, Anapesi Ka’ili, Darron Smith, and more.
Find the entire schedule and video links here.

Dialogue Lectures #44 w/ Thomas Wayment

May 8, 2019

In this Dialogue podcast Thomas Wayment discusses “The New Testament: A Translation for Latter-day Saints A Study Bible.” From the Miller Eccles website: “I would like to share the story that is not told in…

Dialogue Fireside #2 w/Claudia Bushman

November 20, 2020

For our second fireside on November 15th, Claudia Bushman will be teaching us about “Resurrection Month.” Claudia Lauper Bushman, born in Oakland, California, and raised in San Francisco, considers herself a California Mormon, an independent…

"Borders on Pornography"

April 11, 2010

The Editors. Dialogue Journal. I am a long-time subscriber to Dialogue and thoroughly enjoy the scholarly articles that it features. I must inform you, however, that I found the fiction section of the Spring 2010…

Merry Christmas!

December 8, 2011

In this issue, Armand Mauss looks back over the decades since his book The Angel and the Beehive was published, with its seminal theory of LDS assimilation and retrenchment, while Fred Gedicks looks forward to…

Review: Bringhurst and Foster, eds., “The Persistence of Polygamy”

June 20, 2012

Title: The Persistence of Polygamy: Joseph Smith and the Origins of Mormon Polygamy
Editors: Newell G. Bringhurst and Craig L. Foster
Publisher: John Whitmer Books
Genre: History
Year: 2010
Pages: 306
Binding: Softcover
ISBN13: 978-1-934901-13-7
Price: $24.95
Reviewed by Blair Hodges
We usually just want the unvarnished truth. Tell us the facts. Drop the spin. Lay it all out on the table. State your case objectively and we’ll decide to believe you or to reject your views. Give us some easy bullet points, a quick overview, a succinct argument, and the jury will return shortly with the verdict. The problem is that we all too often forget we’re all incapable of constructing, let alone judging between, contrasting claims about our past in an “objective” way. This is my non-comprehensive way of explaining our persistent interest in history, of course. “History speaks not only of the past but also of the present.”1