Help us Keep Sunstone Thriving Donate Here Something really interesting happened at the 2023 Summer Symposium. The two most popular sessions were “Why I Stay” and “Spiritual Paths of the September Six Thirty Years Later.” And, overall, both sessions were attended by the same crowd of people. Listen to 2023's "Why I Stay" https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/SL23251-Why-We-Stay.mp3 When …
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Earth Stewardship: Our Work for the Unborn
By Robert A. Rees Robert A. Rees is the director of Mormon Studies at the Graduate Theological Union. He is the author of A New Witness for the World (BCC Press, 2020) and editor of Why I Stay 2 (Signature Books, 2021). I According to Latter-day Saint theology, this earth was created by the …
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November 2014 Issue 176 Magazine content A Personal History of Sunstone Memories and Reflections, By Scott Kenney My Sunstone Experience, By Allen D. Roberts Stretching Toward the Light, By Peggy Fletcher Stack Reflections on Peggy, By John Sillitoe Four Amazing Years, By Susan Staker The Sunstone Review Finding My Way with Type, by Connie Disney We Were All Volunteers, By Dennis …
Braving the Borderlands: Crisis of Faith vs. Crisis of Belief
By D. Jeff Burton Or right-click here to download the audio file: “Crisis of Faith vs. Crisis of Belief” Articles, podcasts, blog posts, and books about the “faith crisis” phenomenon have abounded during the past few years, providing Borderlanders with a lot of interesting material to consider.1 Reading through these offerings, …
2016 Salt Lake Summer Symposium
In 1979, Sunstone began sponsoring an annual symposium in Salt Lake City, which is now a four-day event with approximately 100 different sessions, generally scheduled the first weekend in August. Since the 1980s, Sunstone has also held regional symposia in Washington DC, California, Seattle, Chicago, Dallas, and Boston. Many Mormonisms and the Mormon Movement The restoration tradition is a large spectrum of complicated and diverse groups, theologies, …
Sunstone and Me
By J. Frederick (Toby) Pingree Forty years ago in 1974 I was a new transplant to the San Francisco Bay Area, working in Orinda, California and living in nearby Walnut Creek. I was a partner in a small accounting firm whose senior partner was in the presidency of the Oakland Stake. One day, I overheard …
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Sunstone is a forum for examining and expressing the rich spiritual, intellectual, social, and artistic aspects of history and contemporary life across the Mormon movement. We maintain our publications and recordings on this website so that each new generation can explore and interrogate the past’s effect on Mormon communities and cultures. Please be aware that …
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Sunstone is a forum for examining and expressing the rich spiritual, intellectual, social, and artistic aspects of history and contemporary life across the Mormon movement. We maintain our publications and recordings on this website so that each new generation can explore and interrogate the past’s effect on Mormon communities and cultures. Please be aware that …
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Part XII of the Sunstone Classics series. Jana Bouck Remy was a frequent contributor to Sunstone’s magazine and symposia. This is excerpted from an article published in 2004. It starts on page 10 of issue 131. Pose of a child. Balasana. Sitting on knees, forehead to the floor, arms at my side. A child. Curled …