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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 »

“The Old Testament, even the very name strikes fear into the hearts of some readers. It seems intimidating, complicated, and maybe even a litle harsh. Let’s change that.” Welcome to Dialogue Courses. This series will focus on Old Testemant studies curated and taught by Dialogue Editor Taylor Petrey.

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »