Episodes
2025 Mormon Studies Books in Review
It’s time for our annual Mormon Studies Books in Review episode, where we take stock of the most compelling non-fiction, literature, and creative works on Mormon themes published in 2025. In this wide-ranging conversation, Dialogue…
Mormonism, Anticommunism, & the Politics of Christian Nationalism: A Conversation w/ Matthew Harris
In this episode, Dialogue editor Margaret Olsen Hemming interviews historian Matthew L. Harris about his article “Saving the Constitution” with White Christian Nationalism: Ezra Taft Benson, W. Cleon Skousen, and Their Attempt to Solicit the…
Writing Mormon Letters: A Conversation with Charity Shumway
In this episode of Dialogue Out Loud, Dialogue fiction co-editors Ryan Shoemaker and Joe Plicka speak with writer Charity Shumway about her short story “The First Letter She Found,” published in the Fall 2025 issue…
The First Letter She Found by Charity Shumway: Audio Story
In this episode of Dialogue Out Loud, we present “The First Letter She Found” by Charity Shumway, a deeply intimate short story about faith, embodiment, love, and the quiet costs of self-surrender across generations. Framed…
Winter 2025 Issue Overview
In this Winter 2025 Issue Overview, Dialogue co-editors Margaret Olsen Hemming and Caroline Kline are joined by the journal’s subject editors to introduce the latest issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought and highlight…
When Materials Speak: A Conversation with Paola Bidinelli
In this episode of Dialogue Out Loud, Dialogue art editor Amanda Beardsley sits down with Paola Bidinelli, the cover artist for the Fall 2025 issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, to explore the…
Secret Societies and Scripture: A Conversation with Colby Townsend
What do the Illuminati, Freemasons, and anti-Jacobin conspiracies of the late 18th century have to do with the Book of Mormon? More than you might think. In this episode of Dialogue Out Loud, co-editor Caroline…
Confronting Men’s Violence Against Women in the LDS Church: A Conversation with Suzanne E. Greco
In this moving episode of Dialogue Out Loud, Dialogue co-editor Caroline Kline speaks with Suzanne E. Greco about her article “Confronting Men’s Violence Against Women and Girls in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day…
Fall 2025 Issue Overview
In this episode of Dialogue Out Loud, the editorial team comes together to introduce the Fall 2025 issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. From groundbreaking scholarship to moving creative work, the editors walk…
Sacred Suffering: A Conversation with Bryant Thompson
In this episode of Dialogue Out Loud, Personal Voices editor Charlotte Hansen Terry speaks with Bryant Skeen Thompson, author of the deeply moving essay “No Hard Feelings,” from the Summer 2025 issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. Thompson shares the story of…