Welcome to Season Two of Deseret Drama Join the Sunstone Mormon History podcasters Bryan Buchanan and Lindsay Hansen Park for a special second season of Deseret Dramas. This miniseries will explore the history of how Mormon history was told and came to be. Last Season on Deseret Drama On Oct. 26, 1866 non-Mormon Dr. John …
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Home Centered Sunstone
Row midpoint Shape Decorative svg added to top Stay home and experience the best of Sunstone! Thursdays at 7:00pm MST, Sunstone hosts interviews, panel discussions, and workshops, streaming live on Facebook. Tune in Thursdays at 7:00 pm on the Sunstone Facebook page to catch us live. And then become a follower so you can receive …
The Bigamist
By Eric Freeze Eric Freeze is author of the short story collection Dominant Traits (2012) and a collection of creative nonfiction Hemingway on a Bike (2014). He has published stories, essays, and translations in numerous periodicals. He teaches creative writing at Wabash College and lives in Crawfordsville, Indiana and Nice, France. Sandra had …
Still Finding Pieces
By Lia Hadley Lia Hadley lives with her husband in the Pacific Northwest where she writes and teaches, always finding new ways to recycle the past. The other day, I was at the grocery store here in the Pacific Northwest with my husband. As we came out of the soup and pasta aisle, …
How Warren Jeffs Maintains His Hold Over the FLDS
By Ken Driggs Ken Driggs is an attorney living in Atlanta, Georgia. He specializes in criminal defense and has a graduate degree in legal history. He has visited and written about Fundamentalist Mormons since 1988. “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” …
Death of an Old Dog
By Patricia Karamesines PATRICIA KARAMESINES is the author of The Pictograph Murders (Signature Books 2004). Her poetry appears in both Harvest (Signature Books 1989) and Fire in the Pasture (Peculiar Pages 2011) and has also been published in Dialogue and Irreantum. She is an adjunct instructor at Utah State University–Eastern Blanding. On Thanksgiving …
The Essays’ Effect on the International Church
By Gina Colvin Gina Colvin is the host of the A Thoughtful Faith podcast and blogs at KiwiMormon. She lives in Christchurch, New Zealand where she is a lecturer at the University of Canterbury. The Gospel Topics Essays are making a huge splash in the United States, but it’s likely that they’ll barely make …
Violence, Mormonism, and the Sober Lessons of History: Breaking the Cycle of Defensiveness and Escalation
By Joanna Brooks Joanna Brooks is Associate Vice President of Faculty Affairs at San Diego University and the author or editor of six scholarly books. My scholarly training is in the cultural histories of race and colonialism in early America. Because I have this larger view of the violence of colonialism in the …
In My Father’s House
By Cecil Morris Or right-click here to download the audio file: In My Father’s House The house that dementia built my father filled with people. It hummed with talk both day and night, a host of long lost relatives returned to relive stories he had never shared with me. Sometimes I was …
Mormons and Native Americans: Myths vs. Realities
Brigham Young is quoted as having said about Native Americans: “It is cheaper to feed them than to fight them.” Due to this and the Mormon belief that Native Americans are descended from the Book of Mormon people, it is a common myth that 19th-century Mormons were always kind to Native Americans. The reality is …