Above the resurrected beings is deity. And this is one place where Sunstone readers made their views known. Sunstone reprinted this comic in 1989 from the Wittenberg Door, a magazine of Christian satire. According to editor Elbert Peck, Sunstone received a barrage of complaints about this cartoon—though none of them got into the letters to …
How much can we heal from the wounds our religious community gave us? Stephen Carter explores the “hero cycle” story structure to find out.
In this episode, Lindsay and Bryan dive into one of the most violent and outrageous chapters of early Mormon history: the “Runaway Officials” scandal. When federal appointees tried to enforce U.S. law in Utah Territory, they faced threats, beatings, and sabotage from a theocratic regime that ran more like a mafia than a government. From …
Because if I left the Church my wife’d kill me— and who knows, polygamy might come back! Besides, I’ve been a Mormon for so long I can’t even imagine not being one. And, finally and frankly, I stay because I …
Pumping out pups was pleasurable union work, with minimal butt-kissing. Methodical (but far from boring), it left Dog’s mind free for multi-multi-tasking, as the line moved slowly, parts came and went, and looked the same (more or less). In a way, Dog was a lot like your average working stiff. He’d just been at it …
Half the pups were happy to hear that Dog could still chase cats (or cat, generally speaking). Dog said their next life would be just like this one, only better— which meant lots of cats. The pups’ other halves weren’t half so happy, but didn’t bark, as long as this was kept quiet. It had …
Tree Pose For a minute or two, we’ve created our own sacred grove—twenty of us swaying in the sweaty breeze of the gym fan, arms drawn heavenward. Our left legs are lifted off the floor, knees swung wide, heels propped against the inner thigh of our standing legs. I feel a slow burn in my …
In 1999 my husband and I met with an attorney who had offered to advise us pro bono on what to do about the fact that, since he had no birth certificate, Göran couldn’t convince the U.S. passport office that he was a citizen. He’d submitted written requests and processing fees to the bureaus of …
In August 2016, our family moved to Belgium for a year-long sabbatical. We had already participated in the Utah primary caucuses, and we used an overseas ballot to send in our vote well in advance of Election Day. We are eight hours ahead of Utah, so when we woke up on the morning of 9 …
In the summer of 1930, the poet John Neihardt took a detour from his intended destination and drove his 1927 Gardner down a remote trail on the desolate and impoverished Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Reservation was home to the Oglala Lakota, or the Sioux Indians, as we call them. At the time of the …
