Stephen Carter is the director of publications at the Sunstone Education Foundation and author of Virginia Sorensen: Pioneering Mormon Author. He is the recipient of the 2023 Smith-Pettit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters.
I watched The Merchant of Venice a few weeks ago, the one with Al Pacino (Shylock) and Jeremy Irons (Bassanio). It’s really an outstanding film. I just wi... Read more.
Ever since I joined the Association for Mormon Letters email list the main author that has been held forth as a model for good Mormon writing is Chaim Potok. We... Read more.
Buzz Lightyear and I started very much the same. We rocketed into this world convinced that we were fantastic beings with a vital mission to accomplish. Star Co... Read more.
Am I just slow on the uptake here? I went to Mormon Stories today and found to my surprise, that it had been retired. This is a great loss in my opinion. I real... Read more.
Recently on the email list for the Association for Mormon Letters the following was posted in response to some queries about if males could contribute poetry to... Read more.
A few years ago I embarked on a year's worth of rage over an incident that would seem trivial to most people, My sister went to London for six weeks. When ... Read more.
McKye was excited to go to Utah. He was excited about the post-baptism party, complete with pizza, Doritos and a pi?ɬ±ata. He put on his white shirt, his Su... Read more.
Forgive me if this is too personal. I'm supposed to baptize my son on Saturday. Those bored people who have followed my brief career as a fabulously overpa... Read more.
I was going to present this paper at the Sugar Beet session at the Sunstone Symposium, but we were having a lot of fun and I didn’t want to offend whateve... Read more.