By Ted Lee Ted Lee blogs at The Religiously Sanctioned Co-Habitation Chronicles, raises a family, and is a graduate student at the University of British Columbia studying archives and records management. Or download the audio here: “Fallen Bodies, Eternal Genders” Recently, my elders quorum had a lesson on “The Family: A …
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Single in the Borderlands
by Kristine Haglund Kristine Haglund is a former editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought and a blogger at By Common Consent. Or right-click here to download audio. The topic of being single and Mormon seems huge and difficult, probably because “single” is in no way a unitary category; my …
Polygamy and the Early Mormon Hawaiian Mission
By John J. Hammond John J. Hammond has a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He taught political science and philosophy at Kent State University for thirty-five years, retiring in 2007. For the past fourteen years, he has enjoyed researching Mormon topics. Or right-click here to download the audio. …
Tyrants of the Spirit
By Dorothy Allred Solomon Dorothy Allred Solomon is the author of In My Father’s House and Daughter of the Saints. She has appeared on The Today Show and Oprah. Or right-click here to download the audio. Seven years after law enforcement had come down on polygamists, my poor father was collecting …
Tower
By Ryan McIlvain Ryan McIlvain is the author of Elders (2013) and The Radicals (2018). A former Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford, McIlvain has taught writing and literature at Rutgers, Stanford, and USC. Dad came home that afternoon from a last-minute grocery run, honking the horn from the driveway. I’d just …
An LGBTQ Borderlander
By D. Jeff Burton D. Jeff Burton is the author of For Those Who Wonder and a former member of the Sunstone board of directors. In this column I share the story of a gay/bisexual man I’ve become acquainted with over email. Names and details are changed to protect his privacy (and …
Own Your Religion
By Gregory A. Prince Gregory A. Prince is the author of Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History (University of Utah, 2016), David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism (University of Utah, 2005), and Power from on High: The Development of the Mormon Priesthood (Signature, 1995). For two years, …
Jesus Christ (Almost) Visits the Mormons
By Ryan Shoemaker Ryan Shoemaker’s story collection Beyond the Lights is forthcoming from No Record Press. T.C. Boyle called it a collection that “moves effortlessly from brilliant comedic pieces to stories of deep emotional resonance.” Ryan’s work has appeared in Gulf Stream, Santa Monica Review, Booth, Juked, and Silk Road. Find him at RyanShoemaker.net. …
2019 Digital Attendees Content
Check back here throughout and following the symposium for updated links to the audio of all your favorite sessions. Check out this year’s program on our site here, or view the print PDF here. Start Listening right now with the most popular sessions of 2018! 091. Smith-Pettit Lecture: Ned Blackhawk: Great Basin Indian History as …
2018 Digital Attendees Content
Check back here throughout and following the symposium for updated links to the audio of all your favorite sessions. Check out this year’s program on our site here, or view the print PDF here. In The World But Not of the World: The Rise of the Nuns, and Why the World Needs Them” by Boyd J. …