As a non-Mormon writer for the PBS film, The Mormons, Jane Barnes found no novels about the Saints’ place in America. Her paper “Notes Toward a New Mormon Fiction,” asks questions about this absence, starting with the whereabouts of a Mormon Sound and Fury or My Antonia. How can Mormon writers look at their experience …
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Three Real Dangers to LDS Church Members
Three Real Dangers to LDS Church Members This session discusses three real dangers for LDS Church members: certainty, literalism, unwavering obedience to leaders. Certainty discourages inquiry. Literalism creates an atmosphere of skeptical rejection of many figurative, symbolic, or metaphorically rich possibilities-and this, in turn can lead to mistaken application of scriptural texts. Unwavering obedience to …
Train Up A Child In The Way He Should Go
Train Up A Child In The Way He Should Go Gloria Manning-Smee, Elbert Peck
Transitions: Sunstone Looks Forward
Transitions: Sunstone Looks Forward After 15 years at its helm, Elbert Peck resigned as executive director of the Sunstone Foundation. Naturally, many questions arose about the future and direction of Sunstone and those who now carry out its mission to maintain an open forum for religious discussion. Hence, members of the Board of Trustees host …
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 …
Sunstone Celebrates Elbert Peck
Sunstone Celebrates Elbert Peck Join us this evening for a joyous farewell for Elbert Peck, our long-time editor, publisher, and director. Program: ‘RetrosPECKtive” A look at Elbert’s fifteen years with ‘Sunstone,’ complete with personal glimpses and funny stories from many good friends. Speaker: Philip Barlow The Public Thought of Elbert Peck Abstract: Elbert Peck has …
‘A Most Outrageously Ambitious Project’: A History of the Sunstone Review, 1981-84
‘A Most Outrageously Ambitious Project’: A History of the Sunstone Review, 1981-84 Designed to make money, expand ‘Sunstone’s’ influence and readership, and open up a new area of journalistic investigation, the ‘Sunstone Review’ lasted just three years. While it proved to be a financial failure, the ‘Review,’ in the words of Elbert Peck ‘grandly stretched …
A Fresh Look: Favorite Scriptures in Modern Language
A Fresh Look: Favorite Scriptures in Modern Language Elbert finds reading the New Testament in modern English transformative. Come, celebrate new creation in new translation! We’ll read and discuss some of his favorite passages. Copies and books will be available. Elbert Peck
Pillars Of My Faith
Pillars Of My Faith This is Sunstone’s perennially most popular session. Here speakers share the events and concepts that animate their religious lives: a little intellectual testimony-bearing. This self-reflective session is about the things that matter most. Charlie Cannone, Rebecca Chandler, Elbert Peck
MORE LIGHT OR HEAT? A Conversation With Elbert Peck About Sunstone
MORE LIGHT OR HEAT? A Conversation With Elbert Peck About Sunstone Brian Kagel, Bryan Waterman