And now I’ll show you the Sunstone artifact that means most to me. About ten years ago, Karin Peter, who was a Seventy for the Community of Christ, had become one of Sunstone’s board members. Her husband was a patriarch for the Community of Christ, and one day, she brought him over to the Sunstone …
As a non-Mormon scholar, John G. Turner spent years researching Joseph Smith’s life as he wrote a biography of Smith. He found out that nothing about Joseph Smith’s life was boring; for better or for worse. In this episode, Turner compares the young Joseph Smith as he produced the golden plates with the older Joseph …
On October 2017, I got a call from my son-in-law Paul Clark informing me that Salvator Mundi, a painting of Christ by Leonardo da Vinci, would have a rare three-day showing in San Francisco. I knew I had to be there. So the next day, my friend Mara Alverson and I crossed the Golden Gate Bridge …
When family secrets meet frontier justice: A murder that shattered a Mormon community Join Lindsay Hansen Park and journalist Daniel H. Neal for a conversation about his new book No Forgiveness—a true crime story that’s part family reckoning, part historical excavation. On a summer morning in 1911, two polygamous Mormon neighbors stood in an Idaho …
Looking for yet another binge-watch time sink? If you haven’t gotten to The Good Place yet, go there. Among the many joys of the afterlife-themed sitcom are the pause-or-you’ll-miss-’em restaurant names like “Ponzu Scheme” and “Biscotti Pippen” and “(Everything) on a Stick.” Which begs the question: What if Kristen Bell and Ted Danson were in …
Meanwhile, Sunstone continued to advertise its own wares, including another Cal Grondahl book. And even some original drawings by the man himself. Sometimes we dragged ourselves up from the cultural dregs, advertising fine art by Trevor Southey, J. S. Wixom. And Brian Kershisnik. Also on the docket were dance classes from Ririe Woodbury. Poetry by …
When Matt was young, we often read Arnold Lobel’s Frog and Toad stories together. His head would rest against my arm as he followed these simple but wise stories about the difficulties and joys of relating with a loved one. I thought the stories were only for him, but many years later I found out that they …
Heavenly Hurt, it gives us — We can find no scar, But internal difference — Where the Meanings, are — —Emily Dickinson Photographing babies in the morgue, filming a dying young man, dressing a corpse, giving the sacrament to an old woman in a nursing home, watching …
The story shifts from tension to bloodshed. September 1857, Mountain Meadows, southern Utah where a wagon train of emigrant families was betrayed under a flag of truce and massacred by Mormon settlers and their allies. In this episode, we unravel the deception, the chain of command, and the sacred language that cloaked an atrocity in …
Sunstone has been around for long enough that you can uncover various technological eras by going through our basement and attic. For example, this strange machine that could send documents over telephone wires. Amazing, huh? And you could store up to 1.3 megabytes worth of information on this small square. As you can see, Michael …
