Category: Art and Literature

Poly-wood! Mormon Polygamy in the Movies

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 …

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And Thorns Will Grow There

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. …

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Communicable

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 …

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Advent: Moose in Moonlight

By Anita Tanner     Or right-click here to download the audio file: Advent: Moose in Moonlight   …he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him.                            —Isaiah 53:2   …

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In My Father’s House

By Cecil Morris     Or right-click here to download the audio file: In My Father’s House   The house that dementia built my father filled with people.  It hummed with talk both day and night, a host of long lost relatives returned to relive stories he had never shared with me.  Sometimes I was …

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Four Paws Full

by R. A. Christmas     Or right-click here to download the audio file: Four Paws Full   Dog had his paws full. He’d run Bad Pup off because Bad wanted his job (and glory) but Bad took a third of of a litter with him.   There was hell to pay, with Bad (The …

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Still Mormon

By Dayna Patterson     Or right-click here to download the audio file: Still Mormon   1. I’m Mormon the way stars—rubbed out at noon, robbed by sun—still burn   2. The way a geode empty of its quartz is still stone   3. The way a whisper is still a breath carved by tongue …

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Articles of New Faith

By Heather Holland     Or right-click here to download the audio file: Articles of New Faith     Invocation. A novice—raging away from the charred and blistered home of my former faith— I am called by the air in my lungs and the dirt beneath my feet to stand and to breathe, to begin …

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