Dialogue Gospel Study: Recent Episodes
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In this powerful episode of Dialogue Gospel Study, Rebecca de Schweinitz explores Mormon 1-6, delving into themes of resilience, disappointment, and faith amidst turmoil. Recorded shortly after the 2024 presidential election, Rebecca and participants address…
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As Election Day approaches in the United States, Dialogue Gospel Study brings you a timely conversation between Jennifer Walker Thomas, co-executive director of Mormon Women for Ethical Government, and Patrick Mason, the Leonard J. Arrington…
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Fara Anderson Sneddon takes on a journey through music and sermon on grief, connection and healing it this recent Gospel Study lesson. Fara Anderson Sneddon is a teacher, writer, and independent scholar. She received her…
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🎙️ Featured Episode from the Dialogue Podcast Network! 🎙️ In this episode from the Signature Books Podcast, Beth Brumer-Reeve speaks with author Richard D. Hanks about his newly released book, To Be a Friend of…
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In this deeply personal episode of Family Proclamations, author Abi Maxwell shares the transformative journey of understanding her daughter’s identity in a conservative New Hampshire town. Abi’s daughter, who was “known” to her family and…
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David Howlett shares reflections on scripture, Jesus Christ, and testimony on this recent Gospel Study lesson. David Howlett is visiting assistant professor of religion at Smith College where he has taught since 2019. The immediate…
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How does trauma impact memory? What are some things we can do to encourage remembering the things that are most important to us? How can we use memory triggers to cultivate joy in a body…
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In the concluding episode of this groundbreaking series, Valerie and Fiona Givens uncover some beautiful and unique contributions within LDS theology that reveal a God of infinite love and compassion. They highlight obscure but profound…
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Michael Austin looks at the problematic lessons of tribalism in the Book of Mormon to help us discussion divisions today. Michael Austin, who serves on the Dialogue Board of Directors, is Executive Vice President for…
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In the third episode of the series, Valerie and Fiona Givens dive deep into the implications of atonement theology on the human soul and the criminal justice system. They emphasize the need for a healing-focused…
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In the second episode of the series, Valerie and Fiona Givens continue their exploration of atonement theology by delving into its historical and theological underpinnings. Fiona provides a rich context, explaining the shift from early…
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Carolyn Homer takes us through the dichotomies of Alma’s lectures to his sons for this fascinating Gospel Study. Carolyn Homer is a member of the Mount Vernon Stake in the Washington DC Area, where she…
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In the first episode of this enlightening four-part series on Latter Day Struggles, host Valerie Hamaker welcomes back esteemed LDS theologian Fiona Givens. Together, they delve into the development of various atonement theologies and their…
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In this episode of the Dialogue Out Loud podcast, host Taylor Petrey interviews Nicholas Shrum about his thought-provoking essay, “Materializing Faith and Politics: The Unseen Power of the NCCS Pocket Constitution in American Religion,” featured…
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In this special episode of the Dialogue Journal Podcast, we shine a spotlight on Family Proclamations, a thought-provoking show in the Dialogue Podcast Network hosted by award-winning journalist Blair Hodges. Family Proclamations explores the history…
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Join us for our special 2-fer episode with Candice and Dennis Wendt for our only Gospel Study this July. Candice Wendt works at McGill University’s Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, where she works to…
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Jenny Webb takes on a journey through the first part of the book of Alma in this Gospel Study. Jenny Webb works as the global head of project management for Ravensburger Games. Jenny spent 15…
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Diana Hardy describes how she seeks prayerful guidance in discussing tangled up topics in this Gospel Study focused on the end of Mosiah and first part of Alma. Diana Bate Hardy is an attorney and…
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Come join Lori on an exploration of Mosiah for our only May Gospel Study! Lori Thompson Forsyth has had a long and somewhat random history with the publishing industry. She was a typesetter at the Harvard Crimson…
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In this episode of Dialogue Gospel Study, Amy Keel Brown takes us into nature through the scripture of Enos.Amy Keel Brown (she/her/hers) is a Chickasaw woman raised in central Oklahoma. As primary caregiver, she centers…
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In this episode of Dialogue Gospel Study, Charlotte Hansen Terry takes a deep dive into the sermons of Jacob. Charlotte Hansen Terry is a Ph.D. candidate in U.S. History at the University of California, Davis. Her dissertation…
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The Stations of the Cross is a series of images representing the final moments of Jesus’ passion and have been used by centuries to aid Christian devotion and contemplation. In this online event produced in…
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As a Women’s History Month bonus for our Dialogue listeners, find more beautiful and important insights from Maxine Hanks, Jana Spangler and Jody England Hansen on 2 Nephi.
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In this episode of Dialogue Gospel Study, Maxine Hanks takes on an academic journey through this week’s Book of Mormon study. Maxine Hanks is a theologian and historian who lectures and writes on gender in…
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In this thought-provoking episode, titled “Word of God”?: Interpreting Scripture My Way, and That’s Okay, host Christian Kimball delves into the intricacies of interpreting sacred texts, with a focus on the Book of Mormon. Joined…
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In this episode of Dialogue Gospel Study, Kristen Blair invites us to discover how agency, accountability and salvation intertwine in the descriptions of Lehi’s dream. Kristen Blair is a doctoral student at the University of…
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In this episode of Dialogue Gospel Study, Grant Hardy introduces some academic understanding of the Book of Mormon. Grant Hardy is a professor of history and religious studies at the University of North Carolina at…
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In this episode of Dialogue Gospel Study, Daniel O. McClellan uses data to unwravel understandings in Revelations. Dan McClellan has been gathering a following on TikTok since the spring of 2021. McClellan started his TikTok channel…
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In this episode of Dialogue Gospel Study, Susan Elizabeth Howe considers the encouragements found within Hebrews. After receiving her undergraduate degree in Spanish and French from Brigham Young University, poet, playwright, and editor Susan Elizabeth…
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In this episode of Dialogue Gospel Study, Erika Munson explores the challenges faced when we don’t always see eye to eye with those in our congregation. She sits down with Chris Kimball, Linda Kimball and…
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View the 95th Episode of the Dialogue Gospel Study featuring Cynthia W. Connell. Cynthia W. Connell is a nonfiction author, poet and essayist. From her father she is a descendant of the Saponi Indians of…
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View the 94th Episode of the Dialogue Gospel Study featuring W. Paul Reeve. W. Paul Reeve is chair of the History Department and Simmons Chair of Mormon Studies at the University of Utah where he…
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As a bonus for our Dialogue listeners, find more important insights into feeding others like Christ with Charles Inouye.
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Listen to the 93rd Episode of the Dialogue Gospel Study featuring Charles Inouye. Charles Inouye grew up in central Utah and is now living in Lexington, Massachusetts. He’s married to Rei Okamoto and his children…
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Listen to the 92nd Episode of the Dialogue Gospel Study featuring Rosalyn Eves. Rosalyn Eves has a PhD in English from Penn State, with an emphasis in rhetorical history. Her research interests include rhetorics of…
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Listen in to the 91st Episode of the Dialogue Gospel Study featuring Tinesha Zandamela. Tinesha Zandamela is a third-year law student living in the Washington, D.C. area with her husband. Throughout her life, community involvement…
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As a Pioneer Day bonus for our Dialogue listeners, find more fascinating insights into Acts by our Gospel Study Teacher for July 23rd, Ryan Davis.
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Listen in to the 90th Episode of the Dialogue Gospel Study featuring Ryan Davis. Ryan Davis writes about ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of religion. He’s interested especially in how the autonomy of persons is…
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Listen in to the 89th Episode of the Dialogue Gospel Study featuring Bob Rees. Until his recent retirement, Bob was Visiting Professor and Director of Mormon Studies at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He has…
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Listen in to the 88th Episode of the Dialogue Gospel Study featuring artist Kwani Povi Winder. Kwani Povi Winder is an artist located in Ogden, Utah. Her oil paintings are characterized by vibrant colors and…
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Listen in to the 87th Episode of the Dialogue Gospel Study featuring writer Christie Frandsen. Christie Frandsen lives in La Canada, California, wife to Russ Frandsen, mother to 11 brilliant children (9 living), and grandmother…
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Enjoy this 86th Episode of the Dialogue Gospel Study featuring writer Tyler Chadwick. Tyler Chadwick lives in Ogden, Utah, with his wife, Jess, and their four daughters. He’s an award-winning writer and editor and a…
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DARLENE YOUNG is the author of two poetry collections, Homespun and Angel Feathers (BCC Press, 2019), which won the Association for Mormon Letters Award for poetry, and Here (forthcoming, BCC Press). A recipient of the…
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Yá’át’ééh. Shi eí Tyrone Whitehorse yinishyé. Tł’ízíłání nishlį́’, Ásdzáá Naadąą’łgai Tábąąhí báshíshchíín. Honaaghááhníí da’ shicheii áádóó Tódích’ii’nii da’ shinalí. Akot’ego Diné nishlį́’. Hello my name is Tyrone Whitehorse. I am Many Goats, born for the…
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Alice Faulkner Burch was born in Oxnard, CA to Cleo & Elwanda Faulkner. She received an Associate’s Degree from Oxnard College. In 2017 Alice retired from full-time employment for a large, prominent Utah-based corporation after 30 years where…
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Melissa Dalton-Bradford is an author, public speaker, and co-founder of two non-profits: Mormon Women for Ethical Government (MWEG), a nonpartisan organization focused on watchdogging political leadership and engaging women in the same; and Their Story is Our Story (TSOS),…
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Matthew Wickman is Professor of English and Founding Director (emeritus) of the BYU Humanities Center. He has written or edited three academic books and dozens of scholarly articles. Last year, his book Life to the Whole Being:…
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Margaret Olsen Hemming is the coauthor of The Book of Mormon for the Least of These, Vols. 1 and 2. The former editor in chief of Exponent II, she is the art editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon…
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Neylan was the co-founder of Better Days 2020, which celebrated the 150th anniversary of women first voting in Utah (the first women to vote in the modern nation) and the centennial of the 19th Amendment through education, events…
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James C. Jones is a voice actor, grad student, and cohost of the podcast Beyond the Block, a show that seeks to center the marginalized in Mormonism. He is also the creator of LDS Anti-Racism 101, an online…
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Adam McLain is a MA/PhD student in the English department and first-year writing instructor at the University of Connecticut. He writes and researches on dystopian literature, legal theory, and sexual ethics. His recent publications include…
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Deidre Nicole Green is the Assistant Professor of Latter-day Saint/Mormon Studies at the Graduate Theological Union, where she is currently teaching a course on interpersonal forgiveness. She studied philosophy at BYU before completing a Master…
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Kirsten Campbell currently works as an administrator in the Education Department of the South Bend Civic Theatre. For most of her life she’s been a professional volunteer– working on a number of non-profit boards and…
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Steven L. Peck is an ecology professor at Brigham Young University and a fellow of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship and has published over 50 scientific articles in evolutionary ecology, philosophy of…
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Steven Ricks (b. 1969) is a Professor in the BYU School of Music where he currently serves as Composition and Theory Division Coordinator. He holds degrees in composition from BYU, the U of Illinois, and…
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David Karl Sandberg lives in Minneapolis, MN near his three children and four grand-children. He was raised by parents who wrestled with difficult questions and introduced him early on to the words and images found…
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Suzanne Midori Hanna is from Albuquerque, NM and has been a licensed clinician, professor, researcher and author in marriage and family therapy for 40 years. She was educated at BYU and the University of Utah.…
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Linda Hoffman Kimball is an author, artist, poet and an accidental activist. She has written, compiled or illustrated 16 books and has had her work included in many more. She holds a BA from Wellesley…
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Jennifer Finlayson-Fife is a relationship and sexuality educator and coach, as well as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois with a Ph.D in Counseling Psychology from Boston College. She wrote her dissertation on LDS…
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Sherrie Gavin is an author who is passionate about her family, her religious beliefs, and her studies in the fields of history and gender. She earned a bachelor’s degree in history at Southern Utah University, where…
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Jordan Harvey is a native of Las Vegas, Nevada and a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He comes from a part-member family with interracial parents. Jordan served in the…
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Steven Ricks (b. 1969) is a Professor in the BYU School of Music where he currently serves as Composition and Theory Division Coordinator. He holds degrees in composition from BYU, the U of Illinois, and the U of Utah, and a Certificate of Advanced Musical Studies from King’s College London. He currently lives in ProvoRead More »
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David Karl Sandberg lives in Minneapolis, MN near his three children and four grand-children. He was raised by parents who wrestled with difficult questions and introduced him early on to the words and images found in Dialogue which strengthened and sustained him. David graduated from BYU with a degree in Economics and a minor inRead More »
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Suzanne Midori Hanna is from Albuquerque, NM and has been a licensed clinician, professor, researcher and author in marriage and family therapy for 40 years. She was educated at BYU and the University of Utah. Professionally, her mission is to provide under-served groups with cutting edge, evidence-based, relationship-centered health and mental health care. Her textbooksRead More »
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Jennifer Finlayson-Fife is a relationship and sexuality educator and coach, as well as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois with a Ph.D in Counseling Psychology from Boston College. She wrote her dissertation on LDS women and sexuality, and has taught college-level courses on human sexuality. She currently teaches online courses and live workshops toRead More »
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Sherrie Gavin is an author who is passionate about her family, her religious beliefs, and her studies in the fields of history and gender. She earned a bachelor’s degree in history at Southern Utah University, where in her final semester, she accepted an internship in Australia. She now has dual US and Australian citizenships and workedRead More »
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Jordan Harvey is a native of Las Vegas, Nevada and a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He comes from a part-member family with interracial parents. Jordan served in the Chile Rancagua Mission before attending Brigham Young University and teaching at the Missionary Training Center. Following college, Jordan attended theRead More »
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Rachel Hunt Steenblik founded the TinyKindness movement in 2019 as a natural extension to her work in feminism and philosophy. She is currently a professor of Philosophy teaching undergraduate courses at Kean University at the campus in Wenzhou, China. Rachel’s work focuses primarily on women, mothers, and the power and importance of telling true stories.Read More »
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Mariya Manzhos is a freelance journalist, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, The Boston Globe, among other publications. In her stories, she’s interested in exploring the complexities of human experience and what lies below the surface of our communities, relationships, and Instagram accounts. She studied humanities and FrenchRead More »
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Darren Parry is the former Chairman of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation. Darren serves on the Board of Directors for the American West Heritage Center, in Wellsville, Utah, the Utah State Museum Board, the Community Advisory Board for the Huntsman Cancer Institute, the Utah Humanities Board and the PBS Utah Board of Directors.Read More »
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Maxine Hanks lectures and writes on history, women’s studies and theology in Mormon studies and Christian liturgy. She did her bachelor’s in Gender Studies at the University of Utah, and her masters work in History at Arizona State University, with additional graduate work in theology and religious studies at Harvard Divinity and other schools. She was aRead More »
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Thomas A. Wayment is a professor of classical studies at Brigham Young University. The author, coauthor, or editor of many articles and several books, he completed a PhD in New Testament Studies at Claremont Graduate University and has published extensively on New Testament topics. He served as the publications director of the BYU Religious StudiesRead More »
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NEW: Download the Dialogue Hallway Chat after the formal lesson with Esther Candari here. Esther Hi’ilani Candari was born to a mixed Asian American family and raised on the beautiful eastern shore of Oahu, Hawai’i. As an artist, her work reflects this rich multicultural upbringing and often draws upon Polynesian symbols and cultural idealogies. HerRead More »
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Dr. LaShawn Williams is a lifelong member of the church by way of a Southern, African-American part-member, military family. She is a licensed clinical social worker and owner of Relational Spaces, her private practice located in Orem, Utah where she helps clients create change in the relationships that matter most. She is a divorced mom to three kiddos and enjoysRead More »
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Jana Riess is a senior columnist at Religion News Service and the author of many books, including “The Prayer Wheel” (Random House/Convergent, 2018) and “The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church” (Oxford University Press, 2019). She is working on a sociology book with Benjamin Knoll about why and how people leave theRead More »
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J. Kirk Richards was born into a musical family of Provo’s tree streets in 1976. Young Kirk took French horn lessons at the BYU Harris Fine Arts Center, where art exhibits began to fuel his interest in visual arts. Kirk served a mission in Rome, Italy, and then earned a Bachelor of Arts degree fromRead More »
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Nathan Kitchen will be giving our December 26th lesson now due to Darren Parry neeing to be rescheduled later. He will speaking on How Silently the Wondrous Gift is Giv’n: The Gentleness of Love in our Daily Discipleship. Kitchen served his mission in Alabama, graduated with a B.S. in Zoology from BYU, earned his DoctorRead More »
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Carter is an assistant professor in the department of church history and doctrine at BYU. He became a Latter-day Saint in 1996 while living in French Guyana, in South America. He was born and raised in Haiti, where he served eight months of his mission before he was reassigned to the West Indies Mission. HeRead More »
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Amy Harris is an associate professor of history at BYU and an accredited genealogist. A native of Ogden, Utah, she was lucky enough to be raised by spectacularly good parents and particularly stellar siblings. Her research focuses on families, women, and gender in eighteenth-century Britain, though she has also written on family and genealogy inRead More »
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Andrea G. Radke-Moss is a professor of history at Brigham Young University-Idaho, where she teaches courses in the American West and U.S. Women’s History. She received her PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2002 and her book, Bright Epoch: Women and Coeducation in the American West, was published by the University of Nebraska PressRead More »
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Jonathan Stapley is a scientist and historian. Oxford University Press published The Power of Godliness in 2018, which won the Mormon History Association’s best book award. His recent most publications cover topics such as women and priesthood, Brigham Young’s cosmology, and Latter-day Saint sermon practice.
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Ramona Maile Cutri (she-her) is an associate professor of teacher education at Brigham Young University. In her teaching and research, Ramona promotes intellectual and emotional engagement with diversity and inclusion as an integral part of recognizing the structural and individual nuances of equity, power, and oppression. Teaching online and with TikTok are her favorite! SheRead More »
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Nathan Oman is the Rollins Professor at William & Mary Law School. In addition to work in the philosophy of private law, he has published articles on law and Mormonism in Dialogue, BYU Studies, Journal of Mormon History, and various law journals. Within the Church he has served in bishoprics, young men’s presidencies, and asRead More »
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Charles Beacham has always been a storyteller. As a boy, he’d write and tell stories, draw his own comic books, and force his younger brothers to act in his extremely low-budget films. As a teenager and aspiring musician, he explored his love of story through songwriting. Charles’s love of technology and narrative led him toRead More »
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Heather Harris-Bergevin manages her life and that of several others from the front seat of a Prius. Sometimes she writes stuff (Lawless Women, BCC Press), usually poetry. She’s liable to break into showtunes at any time, and always simping over Tom Hiddleston’s voice. Her hobbies include avoiding vacuuming, fixing her sewing machine, and figuring outRead More »
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George Handley is a professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at BYU where he has taught since 1998. His research interests in the area of environmental humanities have resulted in various publications on literature and the environment; an environmental memoir, Home Waters; a novel, American Fork; and a recent collection of essays on the environmental values of Mormonism, entitled The Hope ofRead More »
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Joshua Molina studied broadcast journalism at BYU and currently works as a marketing executive for a Silicon Valley startup. He served a Spanish speaking mission in Idaho and is currently a member of his stake’s High Council. Joshua was born in Ecuador, grew up in New Jersey, and now lives in Phoenix with his wife and three daughters. HeRead More »
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Kimberly Applewhite Teitter, PsyD, is a licensed clinical psychologist practicing in the Salt Lake City area. She is featured in the latest volume of “Why I Stay: Contemporary challenges of discipleship,” edited by Bob Rees. Kimberly serves as a bishop’s wife and Assistant Director of Debra Bonner Unity Gospel Choir. She is also a proudRead More »
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Dialogue Gospel Study June 27th with Matthew Bowman Matthew Bowman is the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of The Mormon People: The Making of An American Faith (Random House, 2012), and the co-editor (with Kate Holbrook) of Women and Mormonism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. (University of Utah, 2016). He has alsoRead More »
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Rachel Mumford is a chaplain and religion teacher at the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C. She teaches courses on ethics, sacred space and iconography, and world religions, and she gives tours of the Washington National Cathedral. Before teaching at NCS, she conducted research on religion and public life at the Pew Research Center. SheRead More »
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Ben is an ecosystem ecologist at Brigham Young University who studies how natural and human disturbances affect carbon, nutrient, and water cycles. Specifically, he works on the permafrost climate feedback, eutrophication, wildfire, river biogeochemistry, and air quality. He is particularly interested in social and environmental sustainability, science communication, and exploring the religious and cultural basisRead More »
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Sylvia Cabus has worked on gender equality and women’s empowerment issues for over twenty years. Currently she is a senior technical advisor in the Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Hub at the US Agency for International Development. Sylvia received a BA in History from UC Berkeley and an MA in international relations from the School of Advanced InternationalRead More »
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HEATHER SUNDAHL is a writer and editor for the Utah Women and Leadership Project, the BYU ARTS Partnership, and helps run the Op-Ed Lab for Mormon Women for Ethical Government. She received a BA in Humanities and an MA in English from BYU. Her passion is women’s stories. In pursuit of this she has workedRead More »
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David-James Gonzales is Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah, where he teaches courses on race/ethnicity, immigration, and Latinas/os in US History. His writing has been published in scholarly journals, anthologies, and newspapers including: The Journal of American Ethnic History, American Studies, 50 Events That Shaped Latino History, and TheRead More »
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Our March 28th Dialogue Gospel Study features a discussion with Restoration pioneer, Brother Darius Gray. We begin with a pre-recorded conversation between Darius Gray and Carey and Mel Hamilton, facilitated by Margaret and Bruce Young. Darius and Mel met in 1969, when Mel was a University of Wyoming football player–one of fourteen removed from theRead More »
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Melody Newey Johnson works as a certified nurse case manager for University of Utah Health. Her decades-long nursing career in cardiology, nephrology, epidemiology, oncology, infusion specialties, behavioral medicine, and clinical management have provided a rich environment for her foundational commitment toward understanding and improving the human condition. She is a writer and poet with numerousRead More »
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Catherine Stokes is a pioneering African-American member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). She is also a retired deputy director of the Illinois Department of Public Health and a community volunteer. She lived in Chicago much of her life and became the first member of her family to graduate fromRead More »
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Elray Henriksen on D&C 12-17 and JS History 1:66-75 Elray Henriksen grew up in an LDS family in Norway and Switzerland, and served as a sergeant in the Norwegian Air Force before doing an undergraduate degree in Peace and Development Studies focused on religious peacebuilding at Bradford University in the UK. He then completed a master’s degree in 2007Read More »
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January 24: Kif Augustine on D&C 3-9 Kif Augustine is Ivan Meitus Chair and Professor of Law at BYU Law School. She was the Associate Dean for Research and Academic Affairs from 2008 to 2013. She has twice been a Fulbright Scholar, first in Argentina and later in Beijing. Her scholarship focuses on intersections amongRead More »
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December 13: Joseph Spencer Joseph M. Spencer is a philosopher and assistant professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University. He’s the author or editor of eight books, most recently of 1st Nephi: A Brief Theological Introduction, published this year by the Neal A. Maxwell Institute. Spencer serves as the editor of the Journal ofRead More »
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December 6: Aimee Evans Hickman Aimee Evans Hickman has been collecting stories in various forms for as long as she can remember—from tales of her early Latter-Day Saint ancestors following Joseph Smith and Brigham Young from one “promised land” to another, to her nearly two decades working with Exponent II, including a stint as Editor-in-ChiefRead More »
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November 22: Daylin Amesimeku on Ether 6-11 Daylin is Chair Elect for the BYU Black Alumni Society and Dialogue Foundation Board Member. She received her BS in Exercise Science from BYU in 2012 and works in ophthalmology. She was raised in Miami, FL and now lives in Boston, MA with her husband and two daughters.
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November 15: Ben Schilaty on Ether 1-5 Dr. Ben Schilaty works as an Honor Code administrator and adjunct professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He holds three degrees from BYU: a bachelor’s degree in Latin American studies, a master’s in Hispanic linguistics, and a master’s in social work; he also earned a PhDRead More »
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November 8: Kylie Nielson Turley on Mormon 7-9 Kylie Nielson Turley (MA in American Studies) has taught writing and literature courses at UVU and BYU-Provo since 1995. She emphasizes a literary approach to the Book of Mormon in her “Literature of the LDS People” course at BYU. Trying to practice what she teaches, she publishes creativeRead More »
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November 1: Louise Wheeler on Mormon 1-6 Dr. Louise Wheeler is an assistant clinical professor and assistant director of diversity and inclusion at the BYU Counseling and Psychological Services. Louise was born and raised in France where she also completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology. She obtained a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at BYU inRead More »
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October 25: Rebecca Roesler on 3 Nephi 27-4 Nephi Dr. Rebecca Roesler is a Professor of Violin and Music Education at Brigham Young University–Idaho. She received a Ph.D. in Music and Human Learning from the University of Texas at Austin, and Bachelors and Masters degrees from Brigham Young University. Becky has presented her research atRead More »
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October 18: Tom Christofferson on 3 Nephi 20-26 Tom Christofferson is the author of “That We May Be One: A Gay Mormon’s Persoective on Faith and Family”, and the forthcoming “A Better Heart: The Power of Christ’s Pure Love”, both publishes by Deseret Book. Tom’s career in global investment management and asset servicing, based in EuropeRead More »
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J. Tekulvē Jackson-Vann is a native of Milledgeville, Georgia. Born into the Pentecostal Holiness Church, he later joined El Bethel Missionary Baptist Church before being taught by missionaries and joining The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1990. He served a full-time mission to the Michigan Lansing Mission before enrolling at Brigham YoungRead More »
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3 Nephi 12-16, September 27: David F. Holland David F. Holland is the John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History at Harvard Divinity School. He also serves on the faculties of Religion and American Studies at Harvard University. David’s research focuses on the intersecting theological commitments and cultural changes that shaped American life from the earlyRead More »
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3 Nephi 8-11; September 21: Margaret Blair Young Margaret Blair Young is an American writer and the president of the Congo Rising Corporation, a foundation focused on initiatives on the Democratic Republic of Congo, including film. She taught creative writing for thirty-four years at Brigham Young University in the USA. She has published six novels and twoRead More »
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3 Nephi 1-7; September 14: Michael D. K. Ing Michael D.K. Ing is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University where he studies ethics in early Chinese thought, and has more recently moved into studying Native Hawaiian thought. He graduated with a BA from Brigham Young University, a master’s degreeRead More »
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Helaman 7 – 12; August 30: Andrea Radke-Moss Andrea G. Radke-Moss is a professor of history at Brigham Young University-Idaho, where she teaches courses in the American West and U.S. Women’s History. She received her PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2002 and her book, Bright Epoch: Women and Coeducation in the American West, wasRead More »
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