How Warren Jeffs Maintains His Hold Over the FLDS
By Ken Driggs Ken Driggs is an attorney living in Atlanta, Georgia. He specializes in criminal defense and has a graduate degree in legal history. He has visite... Read more.
The Quest for the Historical Jesus
By Robert A. Rees Robert A. Rees teaches Mormon Studies at Graduate Theological Union and the University of California Berkeley. He has just completed a play on... Read more.
In the Presence of the Lord
By Kenny Kemp Kenny Kemp is an attorney and author whose latest book, Flying with the Flak Pak, tracks his father’s adventures as a bomber pilot in WWII. He c... Read more.
Thinking About the Handbook Update Using the Four Quadrants
By Russ Osmond Russ Osmond has a Ph.D. from Syracuse University and is the founder of Change Strategies International in Atlanta. He is a retired USAF chaplain ... Read more.
Supporting Your LGBTQ Loved One in Today’s Church
By Natasha Helfer Parker Natasha Helfer Parker is a licensed clinical marriage & family therapist and certified sex therapist with almost 20 years experienc... Read more.
The Church as a Wounded Parent: How the Handbook Update Passes on the Pain
By Michael Farnworth Michael Farnworth, Ed.D., retired from Ricks College after 31 years of teaching family psychology. He is married to Cindi Halliday, and fat... Read more.
Beg, Ch, Dc, Yo, Tr, Sc
By Anita Tanner Like Morse Code, the language as rhythmic as water, the hook angles, drawn on the thin yarn line to gather and build, a pooling of pastel... Read more.
How Does Our Polygamous History Affect Our Marriages?
By Natasha Helfer Parker Natasha Helfer Parker is a licensed clinical marriage & family therapist and certified sex therapist with almost 20 years experienc... Read more.
Thinking Outside Your Quad
By Russ Osmond Russ Osmond has a Ph.D. from Syracuse University and is the founder of Change Strategies International in Atlanta. He is a retired USAF chaplain ... Read more.
Being Thoughtfully and Lovingly Honest
By D. Jeff Burton Jeff Burton is the author of For Those Who Wonder and a former member of the Sunstone board of directors. In previous columns, publishe... Read more.
Tell Me the Stories of Jesus
By Dana Haight Cattani DANA HAIGHT CATTANI was diagnosed with uterine cancer in April 2012. She lives with her family in Indiana. How impressionab... Read more.
Shadows of the Heart
By Larsen Bowker I’d always assumed we all get some small bit of wisdom before we die, believing it came from some centrifugal force of the mind... Read more.
Death of an Old Dog
By Patricia Karamesines PATRICIA KARAMESINES is the author of The Pictograph Murders (Signature Books 2004). Her poetry appears in both Harvest (Signature Books... Read more.
Mothers and Daughters
By Karen Rosenbaum Karen Rosenbaum lives in Kensington, California. This story, which was awarded Sunstone’s 2012 Starstone Prize, appears in her collection, ... Read more.
Jesus is the Population of the World
By Robert A. Rees Robert A. Rees teaches Mormon Studies at Graduate Theological Union and the University of California Berkeley. He has just completed a play on... Read more.
The Chairlift Missionary
By Hans G. Ehrbar Hans G. Ehrbar received his PhD in economics from the University of Michigan in 1985. He has taught economics courses on energy policy and glo... Read more.
Background and Fallout of My 1985 Article: “LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890–1904”
By D. Michael Quinn D. Michael Quinn is the award-winning author of many articles and books on Mormon history including Early Mormonism and the Magic World View... Read more.
Seriously—Why the Hell Can’t You Be More Like the Nelsons?: A Vulgar Response to Fine Art
By Theric Jepson THERIC JEPSON is a gentleman who does not talk like this in everyday life. He is the author of the novel Byuck. But he knows its appearance in ... Read more.
Love and Virtue
By Jeff Nydegger In a timid thought by chance I traced A faint and fleeting path. Like a rabbit trail, it seemed too shy To promise much to any traveler.... Read more.
Departures
By Anita Tanner Some people move away without leaving— when you see them you can’t tell where they are. Others accompany their parting with angry wor... Read more.