The gold plates occupy an interesting place in Mormon culture. Although they are an essential part of the Mormon foundational narrative, the plates have a peripheral place in Mormons’ ordinary discourse. Take, for […]
In his 2003 Dialogue article, Ronald V. Huggins discussed the possibility that Joseph Smith’s ostensible encounter with the angel Moroni was the invocation of a long-held folk tradition of treasure guardians in a milieu […]
Two poems that I read during my sophomore year of college ended up changing my life. The first of these, John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” changed it quickly by helping me decide […]
I’ve been asked to speak on the topic of women who have inspired me, how they’ve helped me, and how I honor them in my life. I want to start with a remarkable experience […]
Terryl Givens’s work has, with good reason, become quite popular in Mormon circles over the past few years. Since The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy (1997), he has […]
<i>Dialogue 47.4 (Winter 2014): 167–180</i><br>Brooks talks about the period from 1970s Mormon feminism in Boston to the present and imagines what needs to be part of the future. She identifies five areas for Mormon […]
[…] academic journey as well as those of the LDS Indian program he studied. From 1970s era protests over colonization, to conflicting views of Indian participants and church administrators, Professor Garrett will survey some of […]
<a href=”https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Patrick-Mason.jpg”><img class=” wp-image-7152 alignright” src=”https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Patrick-Mason.jpg” alt=”Patrick-Mason” width=”155″ height=”222″ /></a> The 26th Dialogue podcast features Dialogue Board Chair Patrick Mason discussing his new book Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt and […]
<a href=”https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/neylan-mcbaine.png”><img class=”alignright wp-image-6373″ src=”https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/neylan-mcbaine.png” alt=”neylan-mcbaine” width=”167″ height=”257″ /></a> The 21st Dialogue podcast features Neylan McBaine, founder and editor-in-chief of the <a title=”Mormon Women Project” href=”http://www.mormonwomen.com/”>Mormon Women Project</a>, a continuously expanding digital library of […]
[…] the Utah War’s leading but now deceased historians: Will Bagley and Ronald W. Walker, “Did Brigham Young Order a Massacre?” True West 50 (Apr. 2003): 31–34. My own position on Young’s culpability for Mountain […]