We and the prophet have no language in common. To us the moral state of society, for all its stains and spots, seems fair and trim; to the prophet it is dreadful. So many deeds of charity are done, so much decency radiates day and night; yet to the prophet satiety of the conscience is …
Once again, through no action or righteousness on their part, another great story landed in the lap of Lindsay and Bryan. That’s right, it’s mailbag time again! A friend of a listener was going through some papers of her mother’s and found an affidavit from a woman claiming to be a plural wife of Joseph …
The Baseball Baptism era is a controversial one in LDS history. Richard Mavin gives a first-hand account of how it all happened in Britain and how his mission experience both thrilled and haunted him for the rest of his life.
Some of the things I found in Sunstone’s various closets were these short-lived Mormon publications. Including the infamous Seventh Street Press (started by future Sunstone and Signature Books leaders), which made nothing but trouble on BYU campus in the early 80s. (And, yes, it was THAT Packer speech this issue is reporting on. You …
Part III of the Sunstone Classics series. Carol Lynn Pearson is the author of the best-selling memoir Goodbye, I Love You, and the multi-award-winning play Facing East (being re-staged by Plan-B Theater in October 2026 for its 20th anniversary). Sunstone published this reflection by her in issue 97 in 1994. As I perform my one-woman …
The communist government of East Germany had really grown to like the Mormons in 1982. Which was strange considering apostle Ezra Taft Benson’s relentless condemnation of communism or anything he thought was connected to it (like the Civil Rights movement). But, as the November 1982 issue of the Sunstone Review reported, “Our preaching of good …
Probably the most controversial period of Mormon missionary history was from about 1960–1962 when more than 100,000 boys were baptized into the LDS Church worldwide—sometimes without realizing it. They were on a baseball field one moment and being baptized the next. In this episode, D. Michael Quinn tells the story of the Baseball Baptism era …
So, the next step up is, do we publish humor about founding leaders? For example, this cartoon about why Martin Harris was Joseph’s scribe only briefly. This is one of the very few cartoons I could find about Joseph Smith published in Sunstone. It seems that, for the most part, we stayed away from pictorial …
Flowers— they bloom a day, then to our graves. Wilted, these flowers; still fervent, the bees at Mother’s grave. We crowded in— sons, sons-in-law, grandsons— to carry her here. I am orphaned, though a man—dead: Father, now Mother. In this verdant valley they had farmed, we buried them. Winds—into the …
In Philip Larkin’s poem “Churchgoing,” a bicyclist who has moved beyond the religion of his upbringing stumbles upon an empty church one weekday. Something about the old building makes him stop, step inside, and wonder—in the most reverent sense of the word—what will become of this building once, as he presumes, religious belief becomes widely …
