Category: News

Sunstone’s Motherhood issue on KRCL

If you missed the live discussion of Sunstone’s special issue on Motherhood, the recording is now available. RadioActive host Troy Williams interviews guest editor Holly Welker, artist Galen Dara, contributing author Rachel Mabey Whipple, and Sunstone executive director Mary Ellen Robertson. Check it out here: http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/krcl/news.newsmain/article/1/0/1930379/RadioActive/RadioActive!.May.11.Heavenly.Mother%27s.Daypodcast

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2012 SLC Sunstone Call for Papers Deadline Extended

If you’re thinking about submitting a proposal for the 2012 Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium, the deadline has been extended! April 15, 2012 is the revised deadline for first round consideration. Proposals received after the deadline will be considered on a time/space available basis. Proposals addressing this year’s theme, Mormons and Mormonism as a Political Force, …

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Update: Issue 165

“I’m a Mormon” Campaign Features Minorities, Gays, Rockers Say goodbye to Donny and Marie; say hello to Brandon, Valentin, and David, some of the new public faces of Mormonism. The “I’m a Mormon” TV and web campaign, running since August 2010, now includes a world-renowned rocker, a rainbow of racial minorities, and—in an unprecedented move—at …

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People: Issue 165

Deceased. Emeritus Seventy RONALD E. POELMAN, 83. A lawyer and successful businessman, Poelman was tapped to become a general authority in 1978. In October 1984, he gave a general conference speech titled “The Gospel and the Church,” in which he argued that “as we increase our knowledge, acceptance and application of gospel principles, we become …

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People: Issue 163

Running. For president, YEAH SAMAKE, 42, in his native Mali, Western Africa. Samake, who converted to Mormonism in 2000 while living in New York, has a master’s degree in public policy from BYU and is currently the mayor of Ouelessebougou, in southwestern Mali. Remarried. Singer and actress MARIE OSMOND, 51, to her first husband STEPHEN …

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