Gender, Sex, Violence, And The Literary Search For A New Mormon Masculinity In Larry Rigby’s novel, The Jaeger Artist, new wealth, ambition, talent and an expensive “Liposculpting” transform middle-American Preston Wright into The New Man. But in bohemian Berlin, he wrestles with inflated artistic success, sexual excess, a thirst to avenge past wounds, violent instincts, …
Event: Salt Lake Symposium 2006
Spirit In Music: The Gospel According To Peter, Paul, and Mary
Spirit In Music: The Gospel According To Peter, Paul, and Mary “Bach gave us God’s Word; Mozart gave us God’s Laughter; Beethoven gave us God’s Fire; God gave us Music that we might Pray without Words.” Panelists will share music that has particularly inspired them, including a special Harmony of the Gospels highlighting the “Gospel …
Mormon Cinema At Six: A Progress Report
Mormon Cinema At Six: A Progress Report Although Mormons have been a topic for films as early as 1905, and LDS filmmakers have been telling quintessential Mormon stories since the 1930s, Richard Dutcher’s films God’s Army (2000) and Brigham City (2001) mark what some consider to be the birth of “Mormon Cinema”, feature-length films with …
Reading. Mormon American Princess
Reading. Mormon American Princess Fresh from his hit Off-Broadway run of Confessions of a Mormon Boy, Steven Fales returns to Sunstone to debut a new solo show full of his outrageous style of humor, monologue, and song. God has seen him through excommunication, divorce, prostitution, and drugs; now Steven’s working on narcissism. And it hasn’t …
My Call to Christian Political Action
My Call to Christian Political Action In church, we spend too much time on relatively insignificant things while the world needs our witness, our application of the teachings of Jesus found in the New Testament to the problems of the world. The conflicts between the teachings of Jesus and the messages of our culture and …
Are Boys More Important Than Girls? The Conflict Between Gender Difference And Equality In Mormonism
Are Boys More Important Than Girls? The Conflict Between Gender Difference And Equality In Mormonism This presentation examines three sets of related inquiries to the question, “Are boys more important than girls?” (1) What kind of equality does God’s justice demand to fulfill the scriptural exhortation that we are all “alike unto God”? Can gender …
Using The Constitution To Define Marriage: Wrong Methods, Wrong Messages, Wrong Messengers
Using The Constitution To Define Marriage: Wrong Methods, Wrong Messages, Wrong Messengers The (decidedly heterosexual and monogamous) speaker proposes that current efforts to define marriage legally with a constitutional amendment can be faulted on grounds of method, message, and messenger. Glenn Cornett and D. Michael Quinn
Author Meets Critics: A Rascal By Nature, A Christian By Yearning: A Mormon Autobiography
Author Meets Critics: A Rascal By Nature, A Christian By Yearning: A Mormon Autobiography Join with a panel of friends and fellow writers for a lively exchange about Levi S. Peterson’s just-released autobiography, A Rascal by Nature, A Christian by Yearning. From the book’s first paragraph: “Although I consider myself a religious person, I know …
Women In The Ministry
Women In The Ministry Panelists in this session will share their reflections on the ministry of women, offering a variety of their own personal life-experiences with regard to their opportunity (sometimes lack thereof) to minister to human needs. Each panelist will speak about her own journey with this issue, reflecting on it as it has …
Peculiarities
Sunstone is thrilled to host the world premiere of a new film, Peculiarities. Initially written by Brigham Young University professor Eric Samuelsen as a play, the film version has emerged as a true cooperative venture by the writer, director, crew, and cast, who have all worked on the film for free. Of Peculiarities’s origins, Samuelsen …