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Dialogue Lectures episodes

October 22, 2013 Dialogue Lectures #10 w/Laurie Maffly-Kipp
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.
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1 hr
August 13, 2013 Dialogue Lectures #9 w/Joseph and Marilyn Bentley
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.
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1 hr 11 min
June 25, 2013 Dialogue Lectures #8 w/Armand Mauss
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 memoir, Shifting Borders and a Tattered Passport: Intellectual Journeys of a Mormon Academic.
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1 hr 22 min
May 21, 2013 Dialogue Lectures #7 w/Eric Eliason
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.
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1 hr 23 min
April 18, 2013 Dialogue Lectures #6 w/Fiona and Terryl Givens
The writing, production, and responses associated with The God Who Weeps reveal something of the multiplicity of “Mormonisms.” In this podcast, Terryl and Fiona discuss some of the ways in which we construct our faith identity, and how we might rethink the interconnections of Mormonism as an institution, a community, a belief structure, and a devotional template.
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1 hr 21 min
March 19, 2013 Dialogue Lectures #5 w/Sarah Barringer Gordon
In a departure from our usual format, this podcast is a recording of a recent presentation given by Dr. Gordon to the Orange County, California, Miller Eccles Study Group. The subject of her presentation is “The Legalization of Utah for Statehood.”
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1 hr 9 min
December 12, 2012 Dialogue Lectures #4 Mormonsandgays.org roundtable

On Thursday, December 6, the LDS Church released a new website www.mormonsandgays.org , which has been met with both praise and criticism from both Mormons and the media. Coincidentally, this site was unveiled soon after the third Dialogue podcast featuring Dr. Bob Rees and Dr. Caitlin Ryan, who talked a lot about ideas embraced within the site. Today, as a follow-up, join Morris Thurston, Dialogue Board president-elect, as he hosts a podcast roundtable with Bill Bradshaw, Bob Rees, and Mitch Mayne as they examine this new site.
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1 hr 24 min
November 15, 2012 Dialogue Lectures #3 w/Dr. Robert Rees and Dr. Caitlin Ryan

In this third Dialogue podcast, Morris Thurston, Dialogue's board president-elect, interviews Dr. Robert Rees, former Dialogue Editor, and Dr. Caitlin Ryan. This podcast seeks to further continuing dialogue between LDS families and Church leaders on issues relating to sexual orientation and same-gender identity and attraction.
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1 hr 26 min
October 24, 2012 Dialogue Lectures #2 w/Dr. John G. Turner

In this second Dialogue podcast, Morris Thurston, Dialogue's board president-elect, interviews Dr. John G. Turner, assistant professor of Religious Studies at George Mason University.
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1 hr 35 min
October 18, 2012 Dialogue Lectures #1 w/Dr. David E. Campbell

In this inaugural Dialogue podcast, Morris Thurston, Dialogue's board president-elect, interviews Dr. David E. Campbell, associate professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and founding director of the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy.
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1 hr 51 min