It’s time for our annual Mormon Studies Books in Review episode, where we take stock of the most compelling non-fiction, literature, and creative works on Mormon themes published in 2025. In this wide-ranging conversation, Dialogue…

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In this episode, Dialogue editor Margaret Olsen Hemming interviews historian Matthew L. Harris about his article “Saving the Constitution” with White Christian Nationalism: Ezra Taft Benson, W. Cleon Skousen, and Their Attempt to Solicit the…

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In this episode of Dialogue Out Loud, Dialogue fiction co-editors Ryan Shoemaker and Joe Plicka speak with writer Charity Shumway about her short story “The First Letter She Found,” published in the Fall 2025 issue…

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In this episode of Dialogue Out Loud, we present “The First Letter She Found” by Charity Shumway, a deeply intimate short story about faith, embodiment, love, and the quiet costs of self-surrender across generations. Framed…

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In this Winter 2025 Issue Overview, Dialogue co-editors Margaret Olsen Hemming and Caroline Kline are joined by the journal’s subject editors to introduce the latest issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought and highlight…

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In this episode of Dialogue Out Loud, Dialogue art editor Amanda Beardsley sits down with Paola Bidinelli, the cover artist for the Fall 2025 issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, to explore the…

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In this episode of Dialogue Book Report, we gather three celebrated voices in contemporary LDS poetry for a conversation about faith, family, and the sacred in everyday life. Poet Zachary Hutchins discusses Joseph: An Epic,…

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In this episode of Dialogue Unbound, host and Dialogue co-editor Caroline Kline is joined by Katie Ludlow Rich, Liz Johnson, and Dialogue’s production editor Daniel Foster Smith for a wide-ranging conversation about the hit series…

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What do the Illuminati, Freemasons, and anti-Jacobin conspiracies of the late 18th century have to do with the Book of Mormon? More than you might think. In this episode of Dialogue Out Loud, co-editor Caroline…

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The recent redesign of Latter-day Saint temple garments has turned a normally private practice into a public conversation — demand was so high the Church’s website briefly struggled to keep up, suggesting leaders may have…

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