So, with that, let’s get back to our original question: what can be the subject of humor and what can’t? It seems to me that a good term to use for that which cannot be the subject of humor is “solid ground.” But when I say solid ground, I don’t mean “the parts of a …
Back in the dark ages when there was no such thing as online advertising, Sunstone had to advertise its event on real paper. Sooo clunky. But really pretty. For example, this one for the 1981 symposium. And I was amazed to find out the high caliber of authors Sunstone was able to bring in even …
Part V of the Sunstone Classics series. Peggy Fletcher Stack was editor in chief of Sunstone and has been a longtime religion reporter for the Salt Lake Tribune. This is excerpted from a Sunstone article published in 1985. It starts on page 4 of issue 46. When I was a teenager, the soulful, hungry faces, …
This brings us back to our question about whether Moroni’s head sticking out of a hat crosses onto sacred ground. I’m going to try to answer that by using a story from J. Golden Kimball. He writes that he was once approached by a woman who told him that she had two brothers. One of …
Let’s take a quick break to make sure everyone reading this is living up to BYU standards. Please compare yourself to the righteous people pictured in this informational poster. I’m very disappointed in all of you. Where’s your sports jacket, Mister? And I don’t see enough Aquanet in that hair, Sister! Another thing I found …
Part IV of the Sunstone Classics Series Linda Sillitoe was a reporter for the Deseret News, co-author of Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders, and author of many novels and poetry collections. This piece is excerpted from a Sunstone article published in 1990. It starts on page 12 of issue 80. [Beginning in …
During the Spanish-American War, Mormons made up almost an entire company of the famous Rough Riders. But they never made an appearance with Theodore Roosevelt in Cuba. Why was that? When the United States declared war on Spain in 1898, Mormons were still villainized as a cloistered, theocratic, patriarchal sect—anti-democratic and opposed to the fundamental …
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 …
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 …
