Author: Guest Contributor

My First Sunstone: Diversity at Its Finest

By guest contributor Carol Hamer. Shortly after getting back from the Sunstone Symposium, I was interviewed about the experience for the “Atheists Talk Radio” Podcast. I offered to be a guest on the program because I figured the secular community would be curious about the diversity of Mormon thought, which is showcased at its finest …

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What I didn’t expect at my first Sunstone

By guest contributor Loren Franck Life is full of surprises, and if you’re lucky, most are pleasant. When I presented “Your Bosom Shall Burn Within You” at the 2009 August Sunstone in Salt Lake City, I expected the unexpected. As a former Mormon, I knew my paper, which compared LDS testimonies with those of Evangelicals, …

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My First Sunstone

Tresa Edmunds provides today’s guest post on her first Sunstone experience at the Salt Lake Symposium August 2009. She blogs at reesedixon.com I have to confess, prior to a few months ago my flawed perception of the Sunstone symposium was that it had little to offer me, a non-academic who defines herself as a True …

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My First Sunstone Symposium

What was your first Sunstone Symposium experience like? What did you expect going in? What surprised you? What sessions were particularly memorable? Who did you meet? What ideas did you hear that inspired or invigorated you? Do tell! We’re collecting and publishing stories from first-time Sunstone Symposium attendees and from longtime symposium-goers who would like …

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