From Deseret News archives:
Dialogue journal celebrating 40 years
Co-founded at Stanford University by G. Wesley Johnson and the late Eugene England after preliminary discussions in 1965, the publication has grown to both a hard-copy and an online presence, including a free public archive in the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library digital collection dialoguejournal.com/search/.
Johnson said Dialogue has become a well-respected source of information about issues affecting The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the scholarly world and is often referenced in other peer-reviewed journals both nationally and abroad. "It's a reliable source they can quote, and I think that's an accomplishment." I think we're definitely pioneers in independent publication" within the LDS community.
People of other faiths were producing independent journals to mull those issues, and Johnson saw no reason that Latter-day Saints shouldn't be doing the same.
Yet the founders and their supporters including Richard Bushman, Stan Cazier, Dallin Oaks, Chase Peterson, Cherry Silver and Laurel Ulrich had to fight the widespread belief at the time that such an enterprise would be "anti-Mormon" because it wasn't published or sanctioned by the church. "We said that's a fallacy."
"The first couple of years were pretty rocky," said Johnson, as many were suspicious of their activities. "Almost everyone on staff was a returned missionary. These were people who loved the church but felt it could be well-served" through an independent publication.
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