Dialogue Journal Podcast

Part two of Bryce Cook's "What Do We Know of God’s Will for His LGBT Children? An Examination of the LDS Church’s Position on Homosexuality." Note that this is a recording of his version found on Mormon LGBT Questions although it is very similar to his Dialogue article. The recording has been split into two pieces for ease of listening.  Enjoy! The post Dialogue Lectures #36 w/Bryce Cook appeared...

As a companion to Bryce Cook's Summer 2017 article "What Do We Know of God’s Will for His LGBT Children? An Examination of the LDS Church’s Position on Homosexuality" we bring you a recording of his article for Dialogue podcasts #35 and #36. Note that this is a recording of his version found on Mormon LGBT Questions although it is very similar to his Dialogue article. The recording is split into t...

In the newest Dialogue podcast Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and Harvard University professor, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, discusses her new book  A House Full of Females – Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835 -1870.  From the Miller Eccles website : In January 1870, three or four thousand Latter-day Saint women gathered in the old tabernacle in Salt Lake City to protest federa...

In the newest Dialogue podcast Matthew Garrrett, Professor of History at Bakersfield College and winner of the 2015 Juanita Brooks Prize in Mormon Studies, discusses his research on the Indian Student Placement Program sponsored by the Church and documented in his recent book, Making Lamanites: Mormons, Native Americans, and the Indian Student Placement Program, 1947-2000, published by The Univers...

John Christopher Thomas is a Pentecostal who studies the Book of Mormon. He spoke at the Miller Eccles group on his new book A Pentecostal Reads the Book of Mormon: A Literary and Theological Introduction , published by CPT Press . Enjoy his fascinating insights in this newest Dialogue podcast. From the Miller Eccles site: "Dr. Thomas (PhD, University of Sheffield) is Clarence J. Abbott Professor...

In this final session of the "Spirit of Dialogue" conference, Marlin Jensen and Greg Prince dialogue about "The Future of Faith." Transcript included. The post Special Dialogue Podcast: "Spirit of Dialogue" Conference Session 7 appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

In this sixth session, influencers discuss "Letting our Differences Make a Difference: Dialogue's Role in Mormon Diversity." The post Special Dialogue Podcast: "Spirit of Dialogue" Conference Session 6 appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

In this fifth session, past editors discuss "The Dialogue Reality: Dialogue’s Editors." The post Special Dialogue Podcast: "Spirit of Dialogue" Conference Session 5 appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

In this fourth session, Armand Mauss discusses "The Dialogue Dream: From Inception to the Present." The post Special Dialogue Podcast: "Spirit of Dialogue" Conference Session 4 appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

In this first session, essayists and bloggers discuss "Grappling with Groupthink: Dialogue’s Role in Addressing Critical Social Issues." The post Special Dialogue Podcast: "Spirit of Dialogue" Conference Session 1 appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

The 31st Dialogue podcast, released in honor of our Dialogue Jubilee on September 30, has past editors reminiscing and "Celebrating 50 Years of Mormonism's Leading Journal" as recorded at the Sunstone session of the same name. From the Sunstone abstract: "Beginning with its first issue, which showed two people sitting under a tree engaged in conversation, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought has...

I have been deeply comforted that Dialogue exists, that it's there as a strong voice for things that need to be said." - Carol Lynn Pearson The post Sitting at Sunstone dialoguing about Dialogue appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

The 30th Dialogue podcast features Board Member Gregory A. Prince, who spoke on his new book,  Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History ,  published by the University of Utah Press  at a recent Miller Eccles presentation.  From the Miller Eccles website : "Dr. Prince earned doctorate degrees in dentistry and pathology from UCLA. A prodigious student of Mormon history, he is also a proli...

Editor Boyd J. Petersen spoke at a recent Miller Eccles group on "Landing Instructions How to Navigate (or Help Someone Navigating) a Faith Crisis." Petersen is the Program Coordinator for Mormon Studies at Utah Valley University and the newly appointed editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought . He is also a prolific essayist who will draw from his book of essays titled Dead Wood and Rushin...

The newest Dialogue podcast features Dr. Jared Hickman, Assistant Professor in the English Department of Johns Hopkins University. Professor Hickman speaks on his essay "The Book of Mormon as Amerindian Apocalypse," which was published in American Literature , a literary journal published by Duke University Press.  From the Miller Eccles website: Recent official statements have left some doubt abo...

The newest Dialogue podcast features Dr. Cory Crawford, Assistant Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Ohio. He discusses his new article, “ The Struggle for Female Authority in Biblical and Mormon Traditions ,” published in the 2015 Summer issue of  Dialogue — A Journal of Mormon Thought .  From the Miller Eccles website : "The Old Testament refers to righteous women...

The 26th Dialogue podcast features Dialogue Board Chair Patrick Mason discussing his new book Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt and how Mormons can better live with questions while holding onto their faith. From the Miller Eccles website: Professor Patrick Q. Mason, Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Mason is the author of a much-anticipat...

What was the most read Dialogue pieces in 2015? How about Facebook? The post Best of Dialogue 2015 appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

In the 25th Dialogue podcast, Russell Stevenson looks at Nigeria and the Africanization of Mormon Identity.  From the Miller Eccles website: The Nigerian Mormon story enjoys a fascinating cachet in Mormon thought. Often cast as “a people prepared” and “Saints without baptism,” standard Mormon narratives cast Nigerian Mormonism as an expression of racial dispensationalism in the grand arc of the Ch...

In the 24th Dialogue podcast, Dr. Lisa Olsen Tait discusses the accomplishments and impact of Susa Young Gates, both in the Church and in Utah society. usa Young Gates was a remarkable woman; preeminent in a generation of eminent Mormon women—a writer, editor, Church leader, genealogist, temple worker, political operative, and dynamic personality who claimed she was called the “thirteenth apostle....

  Professor W. Paul Reeve, author of the recently published book, Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness , published by Oxford University Press  discusses "Black, White, and Mormon: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness" at this Miller Eccles presentation. The post Dialogue Lectures #23 w/W Paul Reeve appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

The 22nd Dialogue podcast features Eric D. Huntsman Professor of Ancient Scripture at BYU, Coordinator for Near Eastern Studies, Kennedy Center for International Studies, and Affiliated Faculty, Classics and Near Eastern Studies. In this engaging talk, Huntsman looks at "The Search for the ‘Real’ Jesus of Nazareth:The Jesus of Faith, History, and Revelation." The post Dialogue Lectures #22 w/Eric...

The 21st Dialogue podcast features Neylan McBaine, founder and editor-in-chief of the Mormon Women Project , a continuously expanding digital library of interviews with LDS women from around the world speaking about her latest book Women at Church . From the Miller Eccles site: "The last several years have offered fertile ground for conversations about women, the Church and how the two intersect....

The 20th Dialogue podcast features Associate Professor of Religious History at Harvard Divinity School David Holland speaking on "Full of Eyes Both Before and Behind: Joseph Smith as American Prophet and Ancient Historian." From the Miller-Eccles website: "When writing about Joseph Smith, observers almost reflexively invoke the term “incomparable.” The Latter-day Saint prophet can indeed make comp...

The 19th Dialogue podcast features BYU Professor Craig Harline , whose primary field is European religious history. From the Miller-Eccles website: "Dr. Harline has published a number of historically-based books that have been popular with readers and are held in high regard by critics (see below). Most recently he has turned his narrative skills to writing a memoir of his mission to Belgium in th...