“Pillars” is traditionally one of the most popular sessions at Sunstone symposiums. Join engaging speakers as they share the stories and insights that shape their faith in God, humankind, and Mormonism. Robert Kayihura, Leah Smith, Dan Pingree
Location: BYU
The Middle East Struggle–Roots, Reality And A Hopeful Perspective
The Middle East Struggle–Roots, Reality And A Hopeful Perspective
The Church and Its Scholars: Ten Years After
In August 1992, Lavina Fielding Anderson, who had been collecting information about a disturbingly unhealthy relationship between the Church and its scholars, primarily historians, presented that information as a chronology at a session of the Salt Lake Sunstone symposium. She called for greater honesty, humility, courage, and compassion from both scholars and the Church. As …
Author Meets Critic: Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
At the 2002 Mormon History Association conference, Richard Turley, director of the Church’s Family and Church History division, stunned attendees with the announcement that he and two other Church historians were producing a volume on the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Immediately, rumors circulated that the book was a response to several forthcoming publications on the massacre. …
Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
At the 2002 Mormon History Association conference, Richard Turley, director of the Church’s Family and Church History division, stunned attendees with the announcement that he and two other Church historians are producing a volume on the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Immediately, rumors circulated that the book was a response to several forthcoming publications on the massacre. …
What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: The Seventh East Press–Twenty Years Later
What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: The Seventh East Press–Twenty Years Later It has been twenty years since Ron Priddis, Anthony Schmidt, Elbert Peck, and Maxine Hanks stayed up all night to produce the first issue of the Seventh East Press, Independent Student Newspaper. But the images are still as vivid as the lessons …
Calculated Risk: Freedom for Mormons in Utah Higher Education
Calculated Risk: Freedom for Mormons in Utah Higher Education The freedom society provides us to teach and study unpopular ideas is a calculated risk. Society taxes and contributes to make possible our expensive higher educational system because it accepts that academic freedom, despite the discomfort, even anger, it often creates, serves the long-term best interests …
Calculated Risk: The quest for Freedom and Diversity in Utah Higher Education
Calculated Risk: The quest for Freedom and Diversity in Utah Higher Education The freedom society provides us to teach and study unpopular ideas is a calculated risk. Society taxes and contributes to make possible our expensive higher educational system because it accepts that academic freedom, despite the discomfort, even anger, it often creates, serves the …
Transformations: A Mormon Mission, 1957-1959
Transformations: A Mormon Mission, 1957-1959 I look back on my mission to Great Britain and reflect aloud about significant changes in the direction of the missionary program of the Church itself during that period, changes that allowed a church of just under a million to expand to ten million in 40 years. Important things were …
Q & A. Answers To History Questions
Q & A. Answers To History Questions D. Michael Quinn