Dialogue: a journal of Mormon thought

The Invisible Church: Belonging Ten Years After the Exclusion Policy: A Conversation with Nathan Kitchen and Makoto Hunter Ten years later, its effects continue to shape conversations about faith, belonging, and community among LGBTQ Latter-day Saints. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/the...

With Arnold Friberg in the news, check out this deep dive with co-editor Caroline Kline speaking with Kate Davis about her provocative Spring 2026 article, “Heavenly Bodies: Mormon Male Homoerotics in the Sacred Art of Arnold Friberg.” www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/hom...

In this episode of Dialogue Out Loud, Caroline Kline speaks with former editor Taylor G. Petrey about his essay, “History and Theology of Trans and Nonbinary Identity in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” featured in the Spring 2026 issue. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/tay...

Nancy Ross describes her history with scripture reading and wrestling to find harmony in Leviticus and learning more about giving grace to others. Ross is an associate professor and department chair. Her recent book is “Mormon Garments: Sacred and Secret.” www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/how...

Dialogue Gospel Study with Nancy Ross on Sunday at noon mountain. Nancy Ross is an associate professor and department chair. She researches Mormon and Community of Christ women, women's ordination movements, and issues related to Mormon feminism. www.dialoguejournal.com/events/dialo...

In this Out Loud, Charlotte Hansen Terry speaks with David Doyle about his essay, “The November 2015 Policy and Me,” from the Spring 2026 issue. Blending personal narrative with spiritual reflection, Doyle traces his experience as a gay Latter-day Saint. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/the...

Our Spring Issue is our first in FULL COLOR! “Heavenly Bodies: Mormon Male Homoerotics in the Sacred Art of Arnold Friberg” by Kate Davis begins the issue exploring the queer experience in the Church. This is followed by an important roundtable and more. www.dialoguejournal.com/issues/sprin...

Special Dialogue Gospel Study: Insights on the April 2026 General Conference We are pleased to present reactions and insights to the April 2026 General Conference with friends of Dialogue Nathan Kitchen, Rhea Maynes, Gabriel González, Kathryn Shirts, and Theric Jepson. Enjoy. youtu.be/jitjpetKnpc

Have you heard the new rumor that Lester Bush's Dialogue research in part inspired Zootopia 2? Listen to the newest Face in Hat to learn more! www.podbean.com/ew/pb-vwibg-...

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Artist Application for Dialogue Show Show Title: Re-Reading, Re-Making: Art After Dialogue About: In celebration of 60 years of Dialogue the J. Kirk Richards Art Museum invites artists to submit work for an exhibition opening Oct. 2026 in Provo. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New Dialogue Unbound just dropped! Generations in Transition: Belief, Disaffiliation, and the Future of Mormonism Editors Margaret Olsen Hemming and Caroline Kline sit down with Jana Riess & Benjamin Knoll to explore why are people leaving—and who is staying? www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/gen...

David Banack walks us through the Exodus narrative and ways to find meaning today. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/exo...

Artist Application for Dialogue Show Show Title: Re-Reading, Re-Making: Art After Dialogue We welcome thoughtful, critical, devotional, experimental, and interdisciplinary responses that reflect the depth and diversity of Dialogue’s legacy. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Afterchat with Dale Lawton on Helping God’s Children Dialogue is pleased to release this bonus afterchat with Dale Lawton from his lesson on March 8, 2026 discussing ways we can help God’s children today in our world. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/aft...

Finding Our Place in God’s Plan: Gospel Study with Dale Lawton Dale Lawton uses the stories and covenants of the Old Testament to look at how church members can be more open to working with other communities to do good in the world. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/fin...

What happens when horror film mirrors the structure of Mormon ritual? In this Dialogue Out Loud, Ryan M. Springer joins editor Margaret Olsen Hemming and podcast producer Daniel Foster Smith to explore his “Heretic and the Inversion of the Mormon Endowment.” www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/rea...

Artist Application for Dialogue Show Show Title: Re-Reading, Re-Making: Art After Dialogue In celebration of 60 years of Dialogue, the J. Kirk Richards Art Museum invites artists to submit work for a special exhibition opening October 2026 in Provo, Utah. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Rebecca Nibley considers the choices of Abraham and his family and the ripples that caused, for good and bad. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/exp...

In this Dialogue Out Loud, Stephanie Kilpatrick discusses her “Sneaking to Church in Saudi,” from Winter 2025. Kilpatrick reflects on faith and belonging as in her experience of navigating religious practice in a place where worship carried real stakes. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/fai...

In this episode of Dialogue Out Loud, host Caroline Kline speaks with scholar Thomas W. Murphy about his article from the Winter 2025 issue of Dialogue, “White Is an Ite: The Book of Mormon’s Misappropriation of the Iroquois Great Law of Peace.” www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/uni...

Come enjoy a thoughtful brainstorming session studying Genesis 1-11 (creation, Adam and Eve, Noah, Babel) and the relevant parts of Moses in the Pearl of Great Price with a roundtable of Dialogue board members. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/exp...

In this episode of Dialogue Unbound, host Caroline Kline speaks with Amy Watkins Jensen and Fara Sneddon about the long, unfinished story of women claiming authority, voice, and power within Mormonism. A must listen. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/wom...

It’s time for our annual Mormon Studies Books in Review episode where we look at the non-fiction, literature, and creative works on Mormon themes published in 2025. Book review editors Andrew Hall and Nicholas Shrum are joined by Andrew Hamilton to discuss. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/202...

Editor Margaret Olsen Hemming interviews Matthew L. Harris about “Saving the Constitution” with White Christian Nationalism: Ezra Taft Benson, W. Cleon Skousen, and Their Attempt to Solicit the Help of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, published in the Fall issue www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/mor...

In this Out Loud, fiction co-editors Ryan Shoemaker and Joe Plicka interview Charity Shumway about her story “The First Letter She Found,” from the Fall 2025 issue. Framed as a letter from a mother to her daughter, the story looks at faith, embodiment, love. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/wri...

Dan McClellan introduces us to the books of the Old Testament with scholarship and testimony. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/see...

We are excited to announce that Dan McClellan will be our inaugural Dialogue Gospel Study instructor this Old Testament year. Join us January 11th at 10 a.m mountain. Here's a snippet from his last lesson with us on the New Testament. www.dialoguejournal.com/events/dialo...

We are delighted to be offering another full issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought in audio format. Whether you’re a longtime subscriber or new to Dialogue, this audio offering allows you to experience the issue in a whole new way. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/fal...

End the year right with this powerful audio story. In this 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. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/the...

Our Winter Issue is here just in time for the Christmas season! Check out the magnificent contents: "Heretic and the Inversion of the Mormon Endowment" by Ryan M. Springer. And we present a holiday sermon "Christmas is Music" by Justin Goodson. And much more! www.dialoguejournal.com/issues/winte...

We are delighted to release our Winter 2025 sermon early for the holidays. Enjoy "Christmas is Music" by Justin Goodson. You can read it online or listen to the author read it himself. And Happy Holidays from all of us at Dialogue! www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/chr...

Because Gospel Study lessons around the church did not focus on OD2 this month, Dialogue is pleased to present this important lesson with Kimberly Applewhite Teitter, talking about why it is important that we have these hard conversations. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/ins...

In this special video Gospel Study presentation, join friends of Dialogue Zyon Smiley, Ramona Morris, Chase Phillips, and Andrew Evans as they discuss various aspects of Official Declaration 2, which includes personal and theological insights. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/spe...

Suzanne E. Greco discussed "From Persecuted to Perpetrator: Healing the Church's Trauma Through Ancestral Ties" in this important new Gospel Study. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/hea...

Suzanne E. Greco will discuss “From Persecuted to Perpetrator: Healing the Church’s Trauma Through Ancestral Ties” on the next Gospel Study on December 7. Her research examines systemic complicity in religious rituals perpetuating GBV. www.dialoguejournal.com/events/dialo...

Poetry and LDS Experiences: With Liz Garcia, Zachary Hutchings & Lance Larsen In this episode of Dialogue Book Report, we gather three celebrated voices in contemporary LDS poetry for a conversation about faith, family, and the sacred in everyday life. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/poe...

Happy Thanksgiving! Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought presents "Thanksgiving Turkeys, Paradox, and Godhood" in audio format. Enjoy! www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/aud...

Afterchat with Benjamin Park on D&C 132 Dialogue is pleased to release this bonus afterchat with Dr. Benjamin Park from his lesson on November 16, 2025 talking about the Trauma of Nauvoo and D&C 132 in the scriptural canon. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/aft...

In this episode of Dialogue Unbound, Caroline Kline is joined by Katie Ludlow Rich, Liz Johnson, and Dialogue’s production editor Daniel Foster Smith for a wide-ranging conversation about the hit series Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/unp...

Benjamin E. Park considers the complicated history of Nauvoo and D&C 132 in this fascinating and important lesson. His recently released American Zion: A New History of Mormonism was one of our Dialogue Book Club picks last year. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/tra...

Dialogue Gospel Study with Benjamin E. Park coming on November 16. He runs a popular youtube channel and is currently president of the Mormon History Association. Join us Sunday! www.dialoguejournal.com/events/dialo...

What do the Illuminati, Freemasons, and anti-Jacobin conspiracies have to do with the Book of Mormon? Caroline Kline and Colby Townsend discuss his new Fall article “Secret Societies and the Political Context of Joseph Smith’s Rewritten Scripture.” www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/sec...

In this special video Gospel Study presentation, join friends of Dialogue as they discuss various aspects of Doctrine & Covenants 132, which includes fascinating historical notes, innovative theological unraveling, and meaningful personal insights. youtu.be/DYNxuqp-WG0

We are excited to present multiple views and voices on polygamy as we prepare to study D&C 132 and Official Declaration 1 in the coming weeks. Full video coming Sunday November 9.  youtube.com/@dialoguejou...

Dialogue co-editors Caroline Kline and Margaret Olsen Hemming sit down with Nancy Ross and Kristine Haglund to explore what garments mean today: as sacred objects, as cultural symbols, and as instruments that shape behavior and identity in the Church. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/gar...

Here's a treat! Dialogue Gospel Study with Benjamin E. Park coming on November 16. He runs a popular youtube channel and is currently president of the Mormon History Association. His recently released American Zion was one of our Book Club picks last year. www.dialoguejournal.com/events/dialo...

Sharlee Mullins Glenn shares a survey asking about power in the church and how women and men experience it, appreciate it, understand it, and so much more in this must-listen Dialogue Gospel Study. Find it here www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/the...

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 Saints” from the Fall 2025 issue. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/con...

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought presents “Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader with Editors Mason Kamana Allred and Amanda K. Beardsley” an interview by Glen Nelson. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/aud...

The Fall 2025 issue of Dialogue is out! Highlights include Suzanne E. Greco’s critical examination of men’s violence against women and girls. The issue also features poetry, personal essays, new fiction, four book reviews, and a powerful sermon. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/fal...

Strange Bedfellows: Evangelicals, Mormons, and the Politics of Power In this episode of Dialogue Unbound, Margaret Olsen Hemming talks with Benjamin Park and Nicholas Shrum about how theology, race, and nationalism shape this unlikely alliances. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/str...

The First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was reorganized today and we thought it would be interesting to show their Dialogue connections. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/dia... www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/a-d... www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/dia...

Joe Plicka delves into the historical record of members trying to build Zion, then likens it to our day in this new Dialogue Gospel Study. Joe Plicka has taught at BYU-Hawaii since 2012. His work can be found in the anthology, Fire in the Pasture. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/bui...

In this episode of Dialogue Out Loud Charlotte Hansen Terry speaks with Bryant Skeen Thompson, author of “No Hard Feelings." Thompson shares the story of his brother’s struggle with ALS and the lessons it offered about grief, gratitude, and divine love. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/sac...

We welcome you to our recorded Gospel Study this week. In preparation for General Conference next week, we are proud to present Reflections on the April General Conference talks with various friends of Dialogue, who offer varied and thoughtful responses. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/ref...

We are excited to present Reflections on the April General Conference talks with various friends of Dialogue as well as speakers from our Gospel Study presentations. Coming Sunday, September 28th. Here's a sneak peek of Patrick Mason!

In this episode of Dialogue Unbound, Caroline Kline speaks with scholar and ethnographer Brittany Romanello about her 2020 Dialogue article, “Multiculturalism as Resistance: Latina Migrants Navigate U.S. Mormon Spaces.” www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/lat...

We are excited to present Reflections on the April General Conference talks with various speakers from previous Dialogue Gospel Study sessions. Coming Sunday, September 28th! Here's a sneak peek.

Emma Tueller Stone teaches on generational curses and blessings and so much more in the newest Gospel Study lesson. Emma Tueller Stone is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Research in Children’s Literature at the University of Cambridge. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/gen...

"What happens when six decades of Mormon Thought meet the headlines of today?” We are delighted to announce a new podcast from Editors Margaret Olsen Hemming and Caroline Kline: Dialogue Unbound. First episode coming next week!