About Telos

Telos is an undergraduate journal of Mormon studies — an informal but serious home for essays, research articles, responses, translations, and reviews by young scholars.

What we publish

Telos publishes undergraduate scholarship on Latter-day Saint doctrine, history, philosophy, scripture, literature, and culture. We care about clear thinking and honest writing more than credentials. Most of our authors are undergraduates, but we welcome thoughtful work from anyone willing to take the tradition seriously.

Each issue gathers work around a theme. Between issues, The Forum carries shorter, lighter pieces — reflections, responses, and ideas being tried out.

How we work

We are student-edited and openly so. Telos borrows some of the grammar of academic publishing — issues, abstracts, author affiliations, citable articles — without pretending to be a formal peer-reviewed or institutionally official journal. Every submission is read and edited by our editors before publication. Our aim is to be editorial, young, serious, and generous: a place where undergraduate writing is taken seriously and made better.

Open access & licensing

Everything we publish is free to read. Articles are released under a Creative Commons BY 4.0 license: anyone may share or adapt the work with attribution, and authors retain copyright in their work.

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Get in touch

Interested in submitting, joining the editorial team, or proposing a theme? See our call for papers and submission guidelines, or reach out to the editors directly.