The Sunstone Review reviewed what may be the earliest instance of gay Mormon theater, “Emmett: A One-Mormon Show,” written and performed by Emmett Foster, which was staged in 1983 at The Public House in New York City. Emmett’s mother has been married nine times. His sister tries to hide her smoking habit while she ogles missionaries. …
“Every member a missionary.” You’ve probably heard this phrase more times than you can count. But what you probably don’t know is that it has its roots in the silent films Trapped by the Mormons and Married to a Mormon. Winifred Graham was one of the most ardent anti-Mormons in Britain. She had written two …
In the January 2002 issue of Sunstone, the centerfold read: “If you’ve ever attended a Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium, you know him. He’s the man with the shockingly white hair and irrepressible spirit who has been leading us in wonderful musical adventures and teaching us through delightful conversation and commentary for all but one of …
When I saw the list of the 2022 Academy Awards’ Best Picture nominees, I thought, “Which of these movies would be most useful to Mormons?” And the answer I came up with was Tár. Which seemed strange. After all, we had Avatar: The Way of Water, a movie about a family—and Mormons love families! We …
Today I showed my wife this picture and asked her what came to mind. “It kind of looks like a Mormon temple pagoda,” she said. “I think so, too!” I said. “But why does it look Mormon?” The image is from a book called Temples of the Imagination: AI-generated Temples, Human-generated Insights, by Jeffrey Thayne …
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By Randy Astle Randy Astle is a writer and filmmaker in New York City. He has written numerous articles, and is nearly finished with a book on Mormon film. A TRIP TO SALT LAKE CITY Released during the Smoot Senate hearing, A Trip to Salt Lake City (1905) was both the first Mormon fiction …
By Emily Belanger Emily Belanger is a doctoral candidate at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, where she lives with her husband. When she isn’t teaching, writing, or fending off Southern scorpions, she reads every fairy tale she can find. “And Thorns Will Grow There” took second place in the 2015 Sunstone Fiction Contest. …
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 this bio doesn’t mean any of you will ever read the damn thing. Cheapskates. This article makes mention of Tom Kimball who is in …
By Anita Tanner Or right-click here to download the audio file: Communicable “Religion is like small pox. If you get a good dose, you wear scars.” —Vardis Fisher Dosage: Words stretch and elongate, strain and break from overuse, disintegrate or bind too tight, the life blood cut off from appendages, sermons …
