By Thomas A. Blakely Or click to download the audio file: The Swearing Elders: The First Generation of Modern Mormon Intellectuals. Read the text here.
Category: Mormon Thought
In the Presence of the Lord
By Kenny Kemp Kenny Kemp is an attorney and author whose latest book, Flying with the Flak Pak, tracks his father’s adventures as a bomber pilot in WWII. He can be reached via his website at: www.kennykemp.com. I have finally found a way to live Just like I never could before. I …
A Peculiar People? How Neo-orthodoxy Has Crept Into the LDS Church
By Robert C. Hunsaker Robert C. Hunsaker is a clinical mental health counselor in Salt Lake City. Or right-click to download the audio file: A Peculiar People? How Neo-orthodoxy Has Crept Into the LDS Church In November of 2004 something so uncommon took place in the Salt Lake Tabernacle that nothing …
Thirteen Favorable Consequences of Ordaining Women
By M. Scott Fisher Or right-click to download the audio file here: Thirteen Favorable Consequences of Ordaining Women For a PDF version of the article, click here. First published in Sunstone almost 25 years ago, every word of Fisher’s article is still relevant today. The audio version of this article includes …
Sin Does Not Exist: And Believing That It Does Is Ruining Us
By S. Richard Bellrock S. Richard Bellrock has studied, taught, and worked in areas related to psychology and philosophy for 25 years. Or download the audio file here: Sin Does Not Exist: And Believing That It Does Is Ruining Us Sin is to morality as Zeus’s thunderbolt is to weather.1 That …
The Tongue of Angels, Or the Mind of the Borg?
By Roger Terry Roger Terry is editorial director at BYU Studies and author of fiction and nonfiction books, short stories, serious articles, essays, and editorials. He blogs at mormonomics.blogspot.com. Or download the audio file here: The Tongue of Angels or the Mind of the Borg? On 30 May 1977, I was nearing …
Single in the Borderlands
by Kristine Haglund Kristine Haglund is a former editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought and a blogger at By Common Consent. Or right-click here to download audio. The topic of being single and Mormon seems huge and difficult, probably because “single” is in no way a unitary category; my …
Confessions of an Aging, Hypocritical Ex-missionary
By Wayne C. Booth Can it be good—even spiritually essential—to be a hypocrite? This professor of rhetoric thinks so. Wayne Booth shares the fruits of his life-long interior discussion between his boyhood Mormon religion fundamentalism and his adult “faith.” All of it, the direct result of his two years as a conflicted, intellectual LDS …
Salvator Mundi
By Robert A. Rees Robert A. Rees is the director of Mormon Studies at the Graduate Theological Union. He is compiling a collection of his essays on the Book of Mormon, and can be reached at bobrees2@gmail.com. On October 2017, I got a call from my son-in-law Paul Clark informing me that Salvator …
An LGBTQ Borderlander
By D. Jeff Burton D. Jeff Burton is the author of For Those Who Wonder and a former member of the Sunstone board of directors. In this column I share the story of a gay/bisexual man I’ve become acquainted with over email. Names and details are changed to protect his privacy (and …