Dialogue Unbound

What happens when the LDS Church supports abortion restrictions that go beyond the exceptions recognized in its own teachings? And what can Mormon history tell us about how Latter-day Saints have understood pregnancy, abortion, and…

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In this episode of Dialogue Unbound, Caroline Kline talks with literary scholar Michael Austin and filmmaker Daniel Foster Smith about The Odyssey, modern adaptation, and the stories cultures tell about their heroes. From Odysseus’s hubris…

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In this episode of Dialogue Unbound, Dialogue editors Margaret Olsen Hemming and Caroline Kline sit down with religion scholar Jana Riess and political scientist Benjamin Knoll to explore one of the most pressing questions in…

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In this episode of Dialogue Unbound, host Caroline Kline speaks with Amy Watkins Jensen and Fara Sneddon about the long, unfinished story of women claiming authority, voice, and power within Mormonism. Drawing on history, lived experience, and contemporary activism, the conversation explores…

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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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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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For much of the twentieth century, evangelicals and Latter-day Saints occupied distinct corners of American Christianity—yet in recent decades, they’ve often found themselves aligned politically. In this episode of Dialogue Unbound, host Margaret Olsen Hemming…

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In this episode of Dialogue Unbound, Caroline Kline speaks with scholar and ethnographer Brittany Romanello about her 2020 Dialogue article, Multiculturalism as Resistance: Latina Migrants Navigate U.S. Mormon Spaces. Drawing on ethnographic research with Latina…

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In the inaugural episode of Dialogue Unbound, co-editors Caroline Kline and Margaret Olsen Hemming sit down with scholar Patrick Mason to explore what Mormon theology has to say about peace and peacemaking in our turbulent…

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