By Karen Pellett Most teenage girls have a dream of the man they’ll one day marry. My personal dream was six foot tall with blonde hair and blue eyes. He would be brilliant, ambitious, and absolutely and madly in love with me. Those were just the basics, the stuff that wasn’t too much to ask. …
Category: Mormon Life
An Almost Invisible Tragedy
By Jenni Brighton Just for today I hate everyone I know who is pregnant. And everyone who has gotten pregnant on the first month they tried, or who got pregnant without trying, or who didn’t want to get pregnant but did anyway. Just for today I hate everyone who has ever taken conception or pregnancy …
Parenting After Abuse: From the Profane to the Sacred
By Tresa Edmunds I have finally managed to steal a few hours while my son naps. He had surgery to remove his tonsils and adenoids a few days ago, and ever since, he has wanted nothing except my attention. No ice cream could tempt him; popsicles offered no thrill. All he wants for comfort is …
A Double Theft
By L. Hadley Dream 1 I have two kids. Or maybe three. Yes, I think it’s three; it just sometimes seems like two. They are very intelligent children. And young. The eldest is only eleven. They are horrible. I feed them, clothe them, keep them clean. Help them with their ABC’s. Read to them. …
Sunstone West 2012 preliminary session listing
Sunstone Symposium West 2012 3-4 February 2012 Claremont Graduate University Stauffer Hall 925 N. Dartmouth Ave Claremont, CA Opening Plenary Session 8:00 pm Friday 3 February, Albrecht Auditorium Stirring Up LDS History In her December 2011 Sunstone lecture at the University of Utah, historian LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH examined the new Daughters …
Elder Poelman’s Famous Speech
(The following is excerpted from Joe Geisner’s upcoming article ” ‘Very Careless in His Utterances’: Editing, Correcting, and Censoring Conference Addresses,” to be published in the December 2011 issue of Sunstone. Click here to subscribe.) On 16 November 1984, the Salt Lake Tribune broke a story about changes in first quorum of seventy member Ronald …
Staying at Home in a Daddly Fashion
One Sunday, our son came home from Primary clutching a strip of white paper. On it was the line he was supposed to memorize and repeat in the upcoming Primary program. It read, “A father’s role is to provide. My father works to provide for our family.” I recognized it as a variation on the words and ideas in “The Family: A Proclamation to the World”
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
Sunstone plays supporting role in Big Love
Sunstone was part of a story arc in the episode of Big Love that aired Sunday 23 January 2011. It’s the second episode in the fifth and final season of the series. Sunstone friend and Symposium presenter Kevin Barney blogged about the episode at By Common Consent. Read his synopsis and comment here. While some …
Divine Malfeasance
The next week I delivered a talk about God’s sense of humor. Look at the story of Job—arguably the original practical joke