During its three years of publication, the Sunstone Review covered everything from movies to books to politics to current Church events and everything in between—all from an LDS perspective. Gathered here are a few snippets and some covers.
Category: Sunstone History
Growing with Sunstone
By Stephen Carter I‘m certainly not the youngest person to helm Sunstone Magazine, but I am the first editor to be as old as the magazine itself, both of us being born in 1975. Though I was not raised in a household that subscribed to Sunstone, or any other independent Mormon publication (I was kept …
Finding My Way with Type
By Connie Disney MY FIRST AND ONLY real memory of my father is focusing on the pens securely clipped in his shirt pocket, because he died during the fall just before my second birthday. My mother later told me how much my dad enjoyed using his fountain pens, how he didn’t share them because the …
Sun + Stone
By Robert A. Rees When Peggy Fletcher and Scott Kenney were contemplating starting a new Mormon journal in 1974, they came to see me in Los Angeles. I liked them and I liked their energy and imagination. Being the editor of Dialogue at the time, I immediately offered to help by sending them any manuscripts …
Wizards and Wands: Coordinating the Sunstone Symposium
By John Hatch Although I had attended and even presented at the Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium a few times, my first real immersion in the Sunstone experience came in 2002: the year I coordinated my first symposium. Dan Wotherspoon had hired me in December 2001 as the managing editor of the magazine and the symposium …
Finding Myself at Sunstone
By Dan Wotherspoon “The most important thing is simply to let people know who you are—who it is that’s editing Sunstone.” So said Elbert Peck in early 2001 during one of our many long conversations in the Sunstone office. Though his advice came in response to my query about how he approached the task of …
Stretching Toward the Light
By Peggy Fletcher Stack This is a condensed reprint of a column published in Sunstone’s January 1985 issue. A good editor is like a ghost, presumably of the benign sort. One slinks about rearranging furniture, pointing fingers, levitating tables or entering other bodies for a walk in their shoes. Quietly whispering, breathing, And all …
Four Amazing Years
By Susan Staker I first met Peggy Fletcher (Stack) when we were both working in the Church Historian’s office in the late 70s, but soon I was casting about for a part-time job, preferably one where I could continue to write/edit and pursue my growing interest in Mormon studies. I had two small children at …
Reflections on Peggy
By John Sillitoe I first met Peggy Fletcher (Stack) fairly early in the saga: the fall of 1977, I think, and not too long before I became the magazine’s book review editor the next spring. In the years I worked most closely with Peggy I found her to be someone I not only enjoyed working …
Who Turned the Lights Out?: Behind the Scenes at the Symposium
By Mary Ellen Robertson I’ve been involved with Sunstone in one capacity or another for 22 years—essentially all of my adult life. During those two-plus decades, I went from being an attendee to being a presenter to being a board member and finally to being on the Sunstone staff as Executive Director and Director of …