by A. Joseph West A. Joseph West is father of two children, A.J. and Claire, and husband and lover of their mother, Jessica. He is a graduate student in the department of sociology at the University of Arizona. The last time I had a “real” job was in July 2005. That was the month …
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Staying at Home in a Daddly Fashion
One Sunday, our son came home from Primary clutching a strip of white paper. On it was the line he was supposed to memorize and repeat in the upcoming Primary program. It read, “A father’s role is to provide. My father works to provide for our family.” I recognized it as a variation on the words and ideas in “The Family: A Proclamation to the World”
Ecclesia Mortis: Why Are Church Meetings So Boring?
Ecclesia Mortis: Why Are Church Meetings So Boring? Just as parents bring toys and Cheerios to entertain their children at church, I bring the adult equivalent: essays, books, note pads. But why are church meetings so boring? Why don’t they engage? Is it my fault, or is there something more systemic about the dull monotony? …
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November 2014 Issue 176 Magazine content A Personal History of Sunstone Memories and Reflections, By Scott Kenney My Sunstone Experience, By Allen D. Roberts Stretching Toward the Light, By Peggy Fletcher Stack Reflections on Peggy, By John Sillitoe Four Amazing Years, By Susan Staker The Sunstone Review Finding My Way with Type, by Connie Disney We Were All Volunteers, By Dennis …
Braving the Borderlands: Crisis of Faith vs. Crisis of Belief
By D. Jeff Burton Or right-click here to download the audio file: “Crisis of Faith vs. Crisis of Belief” Articles, podcasts, blog posts, and books about the “faith crisis” phenomenon have abounded during the past few years, providing Borderlanders with a lot of interesting material to consider.1 Reading through these offerings, …
2016 Salt Lake Summer Symposium
In 1979, Sunstone began sponsoring an annual symposium in Salt Lake City, which is now a four-day event with approximately 100 different sessions, generally scheduled the first weekend in August. Since the 1980s, Sunstone has also held regional symposia in Washington DC, California, Seattle, Chicago, Dallas, and Boston. Many Mormonisms and the Mormon Movement The restoration tradition is a large spectrum of complicated and diverse groups, theologies, …
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 …
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Sunstone is a forum for examining and expressing the rich spiritual, intellectual, social, and artistic aspects of history and contemporary life across the Mormon movement. We maintain our publications and recordings on this website so that each new generation can explore and interrogate the past’s effect on Mormon communities and cultures. Please be aware that …
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Sunstone is a forum for examining and expressing the rich spiritual, intellectual, social, and artistic aspects of history and contemporary life across the Mormon movement. We maintain our publications and recordings on this website so that each new generation can explore and interrogate the past’s effect on Mormon communities and cultures. Please be aware that …
UK 2023
Sunstone UK 2023 Evolving Stories October 13-15th, Birmingham UK Mormonism is a religion based on stories. Those found in books and religious texts, those passed down around dinner tables, and those we tell ourselves. These stories shape our lives and the communities we tell them to. As we grow and change, so do the stories …