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 …
Category: Sunstone History
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 …
My Sunstone Experience
Whenever anyone hears that I was once involved with the Sunstone Foundation, they usually ask one or both of these questions: “What did you do for Sunstone?” and “What did Sunstone do for (or to) you?” One question that I have often asked myself is, “What impact has Sunstone had on the Church, its leaders, …
Sunstone and Me
By J. Frederick (Toby) Pingree Forty years ago in 1974 I was a new transplant to the San Francisco Bay Area, working in Orinda, California and living in nearby Walnut Creek. I was a partner in a small accounting firm whose senior partner was in the presidency of the Oakland Stake. One day, I overheard …
Thinking Is a Social Act
By Elbert Eugene Peck Being immersed with Sunstone as the magazine editor and symposium chief for fifteen years was damn fun. I wasn’t the creator of content, just a networker of people and a facilitator of ideas—but being a lazy intellectual, I enjoyed the job. Sunstone fed my broad intellectual cravings for history, critical thinking, …
The Accidental Reporter
By Hugo Olaiz Becoming the news editor for Sunstone was a felicitous accident. Like many other BYU students, I had first discovered the magazine on the shelves of the Harold B. Lee Library, but it wasn’t until I moved away from Utah that I began to read it seriously. In the 1990s, Mormons in the …
Memories and Reflections
By Scott Kenney I WAS RAISED in a faithful LDS home on Salt Lake City’s east side—a sixth generation Mormon on both sides, including Utah pioneer and polygamist ancestors. My father’s folks were farmers and cattle ranchers living in and around Cedar City, so I had little contact with them. But I did know they …
Gotta Jett!
Sunstone has been an incubator for a number of great artists including Brad Teare, Kent Christensen, Christopher Thornock, Calvin Grondahl, Galen Dara, and Pat Bagley. And it was Pat who sent us the artist that has probably affected the look of the magazine most during the past decade: Eisner award-nominated Jett Atwood. As legend has …