By Robert A. Rees Robert A. Rees is the director of Mormon Studies at the Graduate Theological Union. He is the author of A New Witness for the World (BCC Press, 2020) and editor of Why I Stay 2 (Signature Books, 2021). I According to Latter-day Saint theology, this earth was created by the …
Category: Mormon Thought
Household Codes and “The Family: A Proclamation to the World”
By M. David Huston M. David Huston lives and works in the Washington, DC metro area. He is a husband and the father of four children. Although it remains outside the LDS Church’s canonized scripture, “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” (hereafter, “the Proclamation”) is framed authoritatively. It ascribes “divine design” to the …
Mother-hunger
By Dayna Patterson Dayna Patterson is a writer, editor, textile artist, macro photographer, amateur fungophile, and Thea-curious recovering Mormon. Find her at daynapatterson.com. As the camera zooms out to capture the last scene—a paved road winding through Switzerland’s rolling green—I feel myself about to break. We’re sitting on the bed in pajamas, me and my …
Reconciling Mormonism with Pluralism
By Ronn Smith Ronn Smith is a consulting engineer in Wyoming who taught college physics and engineering for fifteen years. He and his wife founded the Sheridan Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in 1983. As A Mormon youth enthralled with physics and philosophy, perhaps my post-mission departure from the LDS Church was inevitable. I wrestled with …
The Swearing Elders: The First Generation of Modern Mormon Intellectuals
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.
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 …