Dialogue Journal Podcast

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...

The 18th Dialogue podcast features Professor Adam S. Miller who spoke on his recent book, Letters to a Young Mormon , published by BYU’s Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at the recent Miller Eccles lecture. From the site: "Adam wrote the book as a way of expressing his Mormon philosophy in a style that would make sense to young adults, but it would be a mistake to conclude the essays ar...

As one of the founders of Dialogue, Wes Johnson has a unique view of the journal and what it has been and what it has become. He sits down with Brandt Malone to discuss it's history and his part in that history in the newest Dialogue podcast. The post Dialogue Lectures #17 w/Wes Johnson appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

[display_podcast] Valerie Hudson headlines the 16th Dialogue podcast in her stop at the Miller Eccles group. There she discusses her new book Sex and World Peace (co-authored by Valerie Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli and Chad Emmett). From the Miller Eccles site: "(this book) unsettles a variety of assumptions in political and security discourse, demonstrating that the security of w...

[display_podcast] In April, the Miller Eccles group welcomed Dr. David Stewart and Matthew Martinich, authors of a new Church almanac that provides an in-depth look at membership, retention, activity and much more, to speak about… The post Dialogue Lectures #15 w/David Stewart & Matt Martinich appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

Brandon Plewe brings his cartographic expertise to discuss his latest work: Mapping Mormonism: An Atlas of Latter-day Saint History in the 14th Dialogue podcast, recorded live at the Miller Eccles study group in March. The post Dialogue Lectures #14 w/Brandon Plewe appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

Dr. Philip Barlow exclaims "The Joseph Smith in our heads is too small!” in the 13th podcast recorded at the Miller-Eccles Group in February. As explained at the website : that is an astounding claim, given the international derision and devotion he has inspired among millions. Yet the scope, nature, and radicalism of his prophetic project is more vast and more radical than his followers or critic...

David Bokovoy discusses various aspects of biblical scholarship in this new Miller-Eccles presentation. As Morris Thurston explains “This timely presentation will be a great way to kick off the year of Old Testament study in your Gospel Doctrine class.” David Bokovoy holds a PhD in Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East and an MA in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies both from Brandeis University. He...

In what is sure to be a popular podcast, Robert Kirby spends an evening at the recent Miller Eccles gathering regaling the audience with amusing story after story--with a delightful dash of unconventional testimony. The post Dialogue Lectures #11 w/Robert Kirby appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

Laurie Maffly-Kipp recently co-edited Proclamation to the People: Nineteenth-Century Mormonism and the Pacific Basin Frontier with Reid Neilson, a book of essays dealing with this crucial aspect of Church history. She shares some of her findings with us in the 10th Dialogue podcast taken from a lecture presented to the Miller-Eccles group. The post Dialogue Lectures #10 w/Laurie Maffly-Kipp appear...

The Bentleys discuss the fascinating story of how the BYU Jerusalem center came to be in this 9th Dialogue podcast taken from a lecture presented to the Miller-Eccles group. They also reported on the current state of Church activities there. The post Dialogue Lectures #9 w/Joseph and Marilyn Bentley appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

Armand L. Mauss, emeritus professor or sociology and religious studies at Washington State University and author of several books and a great many articles on a variety of Mormon issues, including his seminal The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation (1994) took questions from a panel of Miller-Eccles readers posing questions to Armand relating to his recently-published memo...

Drawing from his book, The J. Golden Kimball Stories —the first scholarly analysis of J. Golden Kimball stories in their cultural, psychological, and historical context—professor Eric A. Eliason shares and elucidates old favorites, as well as some little known but quite delightful “Uncle Golden” yarns. The post Dialogue Lectures #7 w/Eric Eliason appeared first on Dialogue Journal .