Dialogue Out Loud

Listen on Spotify. Listen on Apple. Enjoy the Fall 2022 poetry in lovely audio form. The post Dialogue Out Loud Presents 2022 Fall Poetry appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

We figured the Utah Mormons started it, because they were the gardening crowd. Now, to most of the Saints in the College Village Ward, my family and I were Utah Mormons, since we had come… The post Dialogue Out Loud Presents The Great Zucchini War appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

Listen on Spotify. Listen on Apple. The doorbell rang as I hung up the phone, and then I heard my father’s deep, imposing voice fill our entryway. I stood and walked slowly into the unlit… The post Dialogue Out Loud Presents The Private Investigator appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

Listen on Spotify. Listen on Apple. For nearly three hours, I’d been trying unsuccessfully to sleep. It was definitely not the most comfortable bed I’d ever had—only a thin yellow and silver accordion-style pad separated… The post Dialogue Out Loud Presents Mt. Rainier Sanctification appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

Listen on Spotify. Listen on Apple. I accepted the new calling, of course. Without reservation. My father raised me to always go wherever God asks me to go and all. Even though I suspected that… The post Dialogue Out Loud Presents The New Calling appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

Listen on Spotify. Listen on Apple. Enjoy the Summer 2022 poetry in beautiful audio form. The post Dialogue Out Loud Presents Summer 2022 Poetry appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

Listen on Spotify. Listen on Apple. I try to strengthen my relationship with my Heavenly Mother, but I’m not always sure how. Some days I sing, “Heavenly Mother, are you really there? And do you… The post Dialogue Out Loud Presents A Woman There appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

Listen on Spotify. Listen on Apple. It was not in a grove of trees, and I did not see a pillar of light when I first communed with Heavenly Mother. Instead, I was lying crumpled… The post Dialogue Out Loud Presents Mothers and Authority appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

“My belly is expanding. It is not as much as I had expected—nothing like the maternity models (who I suspect might not even be pregnant) who now populate my computer screen’s pop-up ads. Nonetheless, it… The post Dialogue Out Loud Presents In Praise of Belly Buttons (four meditations) appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

Listen on Spotify. Listen on Apple. A beautiful oral rendering of the Spring 2022 Issue poetry including   ASCENSION, AFTER JOHN DONNE by Kathryn Knight Sonntag BIG BANG, WITH STERNUTATION AND SEER STONES by Tyler… The post Dialogue Out Loud Presents 2022 Spring Poetry appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

Listen on Spotify. Listen on Apple. A beautiful oral rendering of the Winter 2021 Issue poetry including COLOR by David K. Isom SALT LAKE CITY, 1957 by Judy Darke Delogu HYMN TO A MAPLE by… The post Dialogue Out Loud Presents 2021 Winter Poetry appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

Listen on Spotify. Listen on Apple. I’m sitting in the bishop’s office. My dress is slightly damp, but I can’t determine whether the moisture is a result of the snowstorm or sweat beading beneath the… The post Dialogue Out Loud Presents Fear, Faith, and Other F-Words appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

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… The post Dialogue Out Loud Presents LePetit Richards and the Big Dipper Carpet—An Amusement Based on a Reworking of Whittle’s Research Notes by Simon Peter Eggertsen appeared first on Dialogue Jour...

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… The post Dialogue Out Loud Presents Thoughts on the Sacrament During a Pandemic by Lori Davis appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

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… The post Dialogue Out Loud Presents Diné Doctor: A Latter-day Saint Story of Healing by Farina King appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

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… The post Dialogue Out Loud Presents The Lamanite Dilemma: Mormonism and Indigeneity by Monika Brown Crowfoot appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

Rebecca, your tragic death was not a complete loss,  for it has defined the arc of my life. And through my work you have touched the lives of scores of people, though they of course, can… The post Dialogue Out Loud Presents Finding Rebecca a Eulogy by Marie Blanchard appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

I remember walking past an institute class in Cambridge. I heard Judy Dushku saying that when her colleagues at the college where she taught asked her, “How can you be a Mormon and a feminist?” she replied,… The post Dialogue Out Loud Presents Assuming Power by Linda Hoffman Kimball appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

“For so long I’ve been so puffed up by thoughts of my own great potential, that perhaps this is the ultimate lifelong mission God has set for me: a literal call not to serve. Indeed,… The post Dialogue Out Loud Presents Called Not to Serve by Neal David Silvester appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

In Sylvette Wolfe’s “Confession” a 60-year-old  woman confesses to enjoying her sin to her bishop. She feels guilt, shame, and…delight? The post Dialogue Out Loud Presents Confession by Sylvette Wolfe appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

In “Who Brought Forth this Christmas Demon” Larry T. Menlove brings us a beautifully complicated story of two men trying to find their way in life with the backdrop of a Christmas tree lot in… The post Dialogue Out Loud Presents Who Brought Forth This Christmas Demon by Larry Menlove appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

Maurine Whipple’s “Mormon Saga” is a story of unrelenting faith that will haunt you in the days to come. She likely wrote it after listening to fellow Relief Society women tell stories of their foremothers,… The post Dialogue Out Loud Presents Mormon Saga by Maurine Whipple appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

In Marissa Burgess “Ace of Saints” she takes readers on her journey of figuring out her asexulity, beautifully narrated in this latest Out Loud. Here’s a snippet. ” I sat in my room, shaking, letting… The post Dialogue Out Loud Presents Ace of Saints appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

In “Certain Places,” William Morris tells the story of a person looking for meaning, connection, and ultimately love in this unique but gorgeous love story that spans more than one lifetime. The sound of shoes… The post Dialogue Out Loud Presents Certain Places appeared first on Dialogue Journal .

Luna Corbden’s beautiful fantastical “In the Garden of Babel” gorgeously comes alive as Eldria and God speak about what it means to be human and to be a god. What does this human woman learn… The post Dialogue Out Loud Presents In the Garden of Babel appeared first on Dialogue Journal .