i pay my respects by saying what’s true in love and anger you served us crumbs, you see, and we hungered for our own bowls of bread and milk love your silvery chains, my sisters we did we do for they are your redemption oh it is not so simple says my …
Category: Issue 161–December 2010
The Bible: 140 Characters at a Time
Just over a year ago, religion scholar, author, editor, and Sunstone favorite Jana Riess began “Twible” (rhymes with Bible), a three-plus year project to “tweet” one Bible chapter a day. Employing a light-hearted style typical of much of the communication one finds on Twitter, the social medium that limits messages to 140 characters or fewer, …
Making a Mark on History
In this new Cornucopia column, Curt Bench, owner and operator of Benchmark Books (www.benchmarkbooks.com), a specialty bookstore in Salt Lake City that focuses primarily on used and rare Mormon books, will tell stories—both humorous and appalling—from his 35-plus years in the LDS book business. During my long career dealing in LDS books, manuscripts, collectibles …
Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
This regular Cornucopia column features incidents from and glimpses into the life and ministry of Elder James E. Talmage as compiled by James P. Harris, who is currently working on a full-length biography of this fascinating Mormon apostle. The column title is adopted from the statement inscribed on Elder Talmage’s tombstone: “Within the Gospel of …
A Heartbroken Hallelujah
Save me, O God; for the waters are come into my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried . . . —Psalms 69:1–3 I‘m sure I have never …
Fully Invested: Taking Stock in Utah County’s Dream Mine
By Kevin Cantera Introduction: The Community of Believers On 14 May 2007, a crowd assembled in the convention hall at the Veterans Memorial Building in Spanish Fork, Utah, for the Relief Mine Company’s annual stockholders’ meeting. An almost festive air preceded the official meeting as about 100 investors gathered to hear the company’s annual financial …
Braving the Borderlands: Conducting a Self-assessment
Know thyself. —Greek Aphorism To thine own self be true, and [you cannot] be false to any man. —Shakespeare At the 2010 Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium (Session 124, 5 August SL10124), John Dehlin and I hosted a spirited discussion with about a hundred attendees about their individual Borderlander experiences. We primed the discussion with …