In our most incendiary episode yet, “The Summer of Conspiracy” rips open the shocking truth of how Mormon leaders, consumed by apocalyptic terror and drunk on prophetic power, weaponized an entire territory in the blood-soaked summer of 1857. When the federal government came knocking, Brigham Young and his zealot lieutenants didn’t just declare war, they …
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A History of Sunstone Cartoons—Part IV
Above the resurrected beings is deity. And this is one place where Sunstone readers made their views known. Sunstone reprinted this comic in 1989 from the Wittenberg Door, a magazine of Christian satire. According to editor Elbert Peck, Sunstone received a barrage of complaints about this cartoon—though none of them got into the letters to …
The Art of Feminism: Forgotten Wives Remembered
If feminist art cuts through female stereotypes, opens new spaces for women, and illuminates the need for gender equality, Leslie Olpin Peterson is a feminist artist. The LDS watercolorist who painted portraits of Joseph Smith’s 34 “Forgotten Wives,” had all her “Wives” on exhibit at the University of Utah’s Olpin Center during 2015’s Salt Lake …
“No Cause. No Cause”: An Essay Toward Reconciliation
Part II of the Sunstone Classics series Eugene England was a founder of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought and a professor of English at BYU before becoming Writer in Residence at Utah Valley University where he started the first Mormon Studies program. He published this excerpted article in 2002. The whole article starts on …
The Pattern: “Fill Up the World” and “Let Every Man Live”
By David R. Hall More than seven billion human beings currently live on our planet in a wide variety of circumstances, with extremes of wealth and poverty and—in most places—in a manner that is steadily eroding the ecology. The United Nations projects that the earth’s human population might exceed 15 billion by the end of …
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The Patriarchal Labyrinth: A Review of “Heretic”
The following is a review of the 2024 film Heretic. The review contains light spoilers, but the heavy ones are placed in the endnotes so as to not ruin the film. (You can also listen to the Sunstone Podcast review of Heretic here: Spotify, Apple, Sunstone.) A preamble: Dear Father in Heaven, thank you for …
An Inappropriate Friendship
By Stephen Carter Stephen Carter is the director of publications for Sunstone, host of the Sunstone Podcast, and author of Virginia Sorensen: Pioneering Mormon Author (Signature Books). It was the middle of April, and the beginning of the pandemic. My friend Anna and I were standing, six feet apart, in the middle of …
2022 Plenaries
2022 Plenary Sessions Wednesday, July 27th Smith-Pettit Lecture: Becoming Brigham 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM When Scott Michael Campbell was cast as Brigham Young in Under the Banner of Heaven, he started on a fascinating journey to become one of the most provocative characters in United States history. In this session, Campbell will talk about …
E81: We Get Gratitude All Wrong and #Givethanks Proved It
A few weeks ago, LDS social media feeds exploded with #givethanks. But something about it seemed … off. Stephen Carter digs into the oddities of Mormon gratitude in this episode of the Sunstone Podcast.