This perennially well-received session features the stories of those who have chosen to remain active, dedicated Latter-day Saints even in the face of many difficult challenges to traditional faith. How have these members wrestled with their faith and yet emerged more determined than ever to be a part of the Latter-day Saint community? J. Frederick …
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WHY WE STAY
As part of its mission to host respectful discussions of all perspectives and topics related to Mormonism, Sunstone occasionally invites participants who have left Mormonism to speak and share their stories. This session features the stories of those who have chosen the opposite tack, highlighting the struggles of those who have chosen to remain active, …
Panel. ‘Why We Stay’
SL03091, This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the March on Washington, at which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and the thirty-fifth anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination. It also marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the revelation reversing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ policy of …
What I Believe and Why: Varying Degrees of Mormon Belief and Why People Stay Active or Don’t
What I Believe and Why: Varying Degrees of Mormon Belief and Why People Stay Active or Don’t Carlan Bradshaw, Brenda Hansen, Dave Rodriguez
253. Joseph Smith, Andrew Tate, and the Plight of Men, or, Why Utah Has One of the Highest Rates of Plastic Surgery in the World
Over the 195 years since the founding of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the economic forces supporting traditional family norms have undergone dramatic changes. In the pre-Industrial economy in which Mormonism began, manhood was defined as acquiring a wife/wives (and hence domestic services), sex, children, a home, and the respect of other …
Why the Communists Liked the Mormons
The communist government of East Germany had really grown to like the Mormons in 1982. Which was strange considering apostle Ezra Taft Benson’s relentless condemnation of communism or anything he thought was connected to it (like the Civil Rights movement). But, as the November 1982 issue of the Sunstone Review reported, “Our preaching of good …
Staying in the Church and Making it Work
By D. Jeff Burton IN APRIL OF 2014, I participated in a Sunstone-sponsored conference called “Navigating the Borderlands.”1 My assigned topic was “Staying in the Church and Making it Work.” I covered ten principles and action items that I (and others) have found useful. In this column and the next, I will provide and expand upon …
A Stay-at-home Dad’s Guide to French Sociology
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 …
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? …