3-6 August 2011
Mormon Artifacts and Material Culture
Category: Featured
Sunstone App is Live!
Like your favorite mission companion, Sunstone can now follow you everywhere. Sunstone and PixelMags have teamed up to bring you the Sunstone app for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. The app is only 99 cents and comes with our current issue. All other issues are $1.99–more than 65 percent off the cover price. Subscription rates …
Thought provoking review of the Book of Mormon musical
Glen Nelson of the Mormon Artists Group just posted his thoughts about the Book of Mormon musical. Thought Sunstoners would enjoy reading it. Elders on Broadway: My Thoughts About The Book of Mormon, the Musical
ISO a Utah County venue for immigration panel!
We’d love to repeat our panel discussion on Mormons and Immigration in Provo/Orem. We have a group of willing speakers and plenty of interest in the topic; we just need a place to have the event. We’d need seating for about 50-75 people and a podium and head table for panelists to use. If you …
Sunstone West video clips from closing plenary session
Sunstone is pleased to announce some additions to our YouTube channel from the closing plenary session at Sunstone West 2011, “Binding Up the Wounds: Healing Efforts Following California’s Vote on Proposition 8.” Due to the length of the session, we’ve created video segments for each speaker on the panel. Click on the links below to …
4/7 Sunstone Panel Discussion on Mormons and Immigration
Choose the Right–But Which is Right? Mormons and Immigration Given that immigration was a significant topic during the last legislative session and continues to be a pressing social issue in Utah, Sunstone at the U is sponsoring this panel discussion among Mormons in Utah about immigration issues. Panelists will discuss how their LDS background shapes …
Panel Discussion on Mormons and Immigration 7 April @ UofU
Sunstone at the U is please to sponsor a panel discussion Thursday 7 April 2011. Choose the Right–But Which is Right? Mormons and Immigration Given that immigration was a significant topic during the last legislative session and continues to be a pressing social issue in Utah, Sunstone at the U is sponsoring this panel discussion …
Call for Papers for the 2011 August Sunstone Symposium
Click here to see a PDF version of the August Sunstone Symposium’s Call for Papers. The Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium is an annual gathering of Latter-day Saints, scholars, and others interested in the diversity and richness of Mormon thought and experience and who enjoy pondering the past, present, and future of Mormon Studies. The Sunstone …
2010 Fiction Contest Winners
Sunstone is pleased to announce the 2010 Brookie and D.K. Brown Fiction Contest winners. The quality of entries this year was especially good, and the judges found much to commend in even stories that are not mentioned here. 1st Place: “One Glass Ball” by Brett Wilcox 2nd Place: “Aquascape #7” by Lon Young 3rd Place: …
Coming Soon–Issue 162
The next issue of Sunstone includes: • A new play from Eric Samuelsen: Borderlands • Phyllis Barber on the difficult questions Mormons face when writing confessional memoirs • Christopher C. Smith on Orson Scott Card inheriting Joseph Smith’s mythmaking mantle • A story from Jack Harrell about a Wal-Mart prophet • Bob Mesle exploring the …