Dialogue: a journal of Mormon thought

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.”
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We're excited for our 2nd Book Club pick for 2026. Join us and get reading!
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Dialogue Gospel Study with Dale Lawton on March 8

Dale Gunn-Lawton is a Managing Director at Kensington Capital Philanthropies, the social impact arm of a private family office focused on empowering people to build healthy, prosperous lives.

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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.

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In Memory of Ardis Parshall This morning I opened Facebook and, to my surprise and enormous sadness, learned that Ardis Parshall had passed away. For those who are unfamiliar with her, Ardis was, among other things, the founder and principal blogger at Keepapitchinin, a delightful blog full of forgotten moments and people in Mormon history and wonderful analysis. Not just a blogger, Ardis was contributor to and on the advisory board of…

In Memory of Ardis Parshall

This morning I opened Facebook and, to my surprise and enormous sadness, learned that Ardis Parshall had passed away. For those who are unfamiliar with her, Ardis was, among other things, the founder and principal blogger at Keepapitchinin, a delightful blog full of…

Rebecca Nibley considers the choices of Abraham and his family and the ripples that caused, for good and bad.

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Reminder of the next Gospel Study on Sunday at 2 p.m. Mountain!

Rebecca Nibley received a BFA in Film and Theater from BYU, and a BFA in fashion and costume design from Intercontinental University of Los Angeles.

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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.

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Dialogue Gospel Study with Rebecca Nibley on February 16  - Dialogue Journal Rebecca Nibley received a BFA in Film and Theater from BYU, and a BFA in fashion and costume design from Intercontinental University of Los Angeles. After moving to LA, she raised her son as a…

Dialogue Gospel Study with Rebecca Nibley on Feb. 22

She got a BFA in Film and Theater from BYU, and a BFA in fashion and costume design from Intercontinental U. of Los Angeles. She is a devoted member and loves “Approaching Zion” by her father Hugh Nibley.
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Join us in our next “All Are Alike Unto God” as four Latter-day Saint scholars join the UVA Mormon Studies Chair Laurie Maffly-Kipp to discuss the aftermath of the 1978 Revelation. They will look at how racism still emerges. Free admission. Space is limited.

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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.”

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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.

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Come enjoy a thoughtful brainstorming session studying Genesis 1-11 and the relevant parts of Moses in the Pearl of Great Price with a roundtable of Dialogue board members with help from our webinar audience who are always full of great comments and questions.
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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.

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When Mormons say to comply with ICE incursions, we're forgetting our own history (RNS) — In 1857, when Latter-day Saints deemed actions emanating from Washington, DC, to be significant breaches of constitutional norms, they didn’t comply, they resisted.

OPINION: Latter-day Saints were once defined as lawbreakers and traitors after they settled in Utah Territory.
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In this day of online reaction, did you know that Dialogue still prints Letters to the Editor? Check out this audio version of the one from the Winter 2025 Issue.
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought presents “Letter to the Editor - Winter 2025.”

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Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought presents “The Power of Words.” This automated voice rendering is provided in order to enable greater accessibility to our content.

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Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought presents “The Power of Words.” This automated voice rendering is provided in order to enable greater accessibility to our content.

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How Mormon women fought a Republican-led redistricting initiative in Utah – and won A 9,000-member group’s legal win could flip a congressional seat to Democrats in the midterms

I still believe in my heart of hearts a Mormon Woman is who will lead us to the promised land of Blutah

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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.

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Faith and fasting in a conflict zone: Minneapolis Latter-day Saints turn to Jesus, one another amid ICE crackdown How Latter-day Saints in Minneapolis are turning to fasting and food deliveries amid ICE’s crackdown.

How Latter-day Saints in Minneapolis are turning to fasting and food deliveries amid ICE’s crackdown.

There's still time to join the Dialogue Book Club before our first meeting in February: www.dialoguejournal.com/book-club/

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought presents “Heretic and the Inversion of the Mormon Endowment.”

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I’m really excited for tonight’s Mormon History Association roundtable on gender and sexuality within the Mormon studies field. It’s gonna be great. And it’s FREE!

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

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Jana Riess: Younger Latter-day Saints are highly devout in some ways but less in others The data is clear: Young adult Latter-day Saints are increasingly leaving the church. But what does religiosity look like for those who stay?

The data is clear: Young adult Latter-day Saints are increasingly leaving the church. But what does religiosity look like for those who stay?

It's World Religion Day! Check out the religion scholarship we publish in our journals, including American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, @dialoguejournal.bsky.social , @jmormonhist.bsky.social , Mormon Studies Review, and Process Studies. www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/jou...

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought presents “Sneaking to Church in Saudi.” Note that any footnotes/images and/or graphs are not included. For the complete experience of this article, please see the PDF/HTML version at dialoguejournal.com.

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Are tradwives and feminists two sides of the same coin on women’s labor? The online tradwife movement highlights traditional women’s roles, including homemaking and childrearing. It has also garnered feminist critique. But a Mormon studies researcher believes that…

Why the strong link between tradwives and Latter-day Saints? Caroline Kline of the Center for Global Mormon Studies shared her theory with us.

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.

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