Dialogue Podcasts

Listen on Apple Podcasts. Listen on Spotify. Dialogue is proud to launch a new monthly podcast series on the dialoguejournal.com/topicpages, exploring key issues in the history of LDS scholarship. Join host Taylor Petrey, editor of Dialogue and associate professor of religion at Kalamazoo College as he studies Evolution as viewed through the scholarship found withinRead More »

Join us for the inaugural event in a new quarterly Dialogue Webinar/Facebook Live series that features conversations about the content and themes addressed in the most recent issue of the journal. First up, authors from the Summer 2021 issue discuss and answer questions about indigenous perspectives and experiences in the LDS faith tradition, and their hopes for Mormon scholarship,Read More »

Andrea G. Radke-Moss is a professor of history at Brigham Young University-Idaho, where she teaches courses in the American West and U.S. Women’s History. She received her PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2002 and her book, Bright Epoch: Women and Coeducation in the American West, was published by the University of Nebraska PressRead More »

Listen on Spotify. Listen on Apple. In the moment of the swerve, family oral history says, Richards tumbled down the slope into a swift-moving stream and was swept away, presumed to have been killed or drowned or, if possible, both. He would have been sixty-three years of age at the time. But Rich-ards was, ifRead More »

We are seeking research-based articles, personal essays, roundtable discussions, fiction, poetry, and art on “Health and Healing in the Mormon Tradition.” The submissions will be considered for a special issue of the journal that will focus on this topic and related themes. Submissions should be received by March 1, 2022. For more information, check outRead More »

Listen on Spotify. Listen on Apple. It occurred to me to bless the sacrament myself. After all, the words “having authority” do not appear in those prayers. I never did do it though. Mostly because I couldn’t figure out how to explain it to my daughter. Instead we just went without for five months. LoriRead More »

Jonathan Stapley is a scientist and historian.  Oxford University Press published The Power of Godliness in 2018, which won the Mormon History Association’s best book award.  His recent most publications cover topics such as women and priesthood, Brigham Young’s cosmology, and Latter-day Saint sermon practice.

Listen on Apple Podcasts. Listen on Spotify. Dialogue is proud to launch a new monthly podcast series on the dialoguejournal.com/topicpages, exploring key issues in the history of LDS scholarship. Join host Taylor Petrey, editor of Dialogue and associate professor of religion at Kalamazoo College as he studies Book of Mormon Topics as viewed through the scholarshipRead More »

Ramona Maile Cutri (she-her) is an associate professor of teacher education at Brigham Young University.  In her teaching and research, Ramona promotes intellectual and emotional engagement with diversity and inclusion as an integral part of recognizing the structural and individual nuances of equity, power, and oppression.  Teaching online and with TikTok are her favorite!  She has served asRead More »

Nathan Oman is the Rollins Professor at William & Mary Law School. In addition to work in the philosophy of private law, he has published articles on law and Mormonism in Dialogue, BYU Studies, Journal of Mormon History, and various law journals. Within the Church he has served in bishoprics, young men’s presidencies, and asRead More »

Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Dialogue is proud to launch a new monthly podcast series on the dialoguejournal.com/topicpages, exploring key issues in the history of LDS scholarship. Join host Taylor Petrey, editor of Dialogue and associate professor of religion at Kalamazoo College as he studies Book of Mormon Topics as viewed through the scholarship foundRead More »

Few figures in the development of Mormon studies during the late-twentieth century are more significant than D. Michael Quinn. Educated at Brigham Young University, the University of Utah, and Yale University, Quinn was among scholars who revisited and revised the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He worked as a researcherRead More »

Kristine L. Haglund joins Andrew and Cristina to talk about her book, Eugene England: A Mormon Liberal. Kristine is a writer, editor, and independent scholar, and the former editor of Dialogue. England championed an optimistic Mormon faith open to liberalizing ideas from American culture. At the same time, he remained devoted to a conservative Mormonism that he saw as a vehicle forRead More »

Charles Beacham has always been a storyteller. As a boy, he’d write and tell stories, draw his own comic books, and force his younger brothers to act in his extremely low-budget films. As a teenager and aspiring musician, he explored his love of story through songwriting. Charles’s love of technology and narrative led him toRead More »

Listen on Spotify. Listen on Apple. In early May 2020, I had to tell my father that his sister, shádí, was dying from the coronavirus. I woke up that morning, thinking about my aunt and crying. I just knew that she was struggling. Then, my cousin called to tell me that my aunt was gettingRead More »

Dr. Terryl L. Givens joins us to talk about his newest book, Stretching the Heavens: The Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism. Eugene England was one of the primary founders of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought in 1966, an English professor at Brigham Young University, and one of the leading intellectuals in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-dayRead More »

Many times throughout my childhood, I heard various church members or my parents tell me that we had to choose between being Navajo and being Mormon. Our family went to church, prayed, and had family home evening regularly. Church was our culture. I remember talks referencing the Book of Mormon scripture: “For there are manyRead More »

Heather Harris-Bergevin manages her life and that of several others from the front seat of a Prius. Sometimes she writes stuff (Lawless Women, BCC Press), usually poetry. She’s liable to break into showtunes at any time, and always simping over Tom Hiddleston’s voice. Her hobbies include avoiding vacuuming, fixing her sewing machine, and figuring outRead More »

George Handley is a professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at BYU where he has taught since 1998. His research interests in the area of environmental humanities have resulted in various publications on literature and the environment; an environmental memoir, Home Waters; a novel, American Fork; and a recent collection of essays on the environmental values of Mormonism, entitled The Hope ofRead More »