By D. Michael Quinn D. Michael Quinn is the award-winning author of many articles and books on Mormon history including Early Mormonism and the Magic World View (Signature, 1998) and the upcoming The Mormon Hierarchy: Wealth and Corporate Power (Signature, 2016). Prologue I was recently asked1 to describe the background of the 97-page …
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A Successful Borderlander’s Story
By D. Jeff Burton Jeff Burton is the author of For Those Who Wonder and a former member of the Sunstone board of directors. In this column, I relate the story of a Borderlander through edited emails we exchanged over a few months. Trevor (not his real name) seems to be making his Borderland …
Mormon or Ex-Mormon?: How About a Third Choice?
It feels like the choice is to stay or go, to be Mormon or ex-Mormon. Why do we have to accept this binary? There are a lot of other choices that don’t entail giving up your Mormon identity. Go on sabbatical. Hold fast to your Mormonism—just make it your own. And don’t let anyone tell …
I See the Moon
By Kevin Rex Or, right-click to download the audio file here: I See the Moon My mom named and blessed all of our cars, christening Ruby, a 1968 Chevy, as our first van. Mom had the priesthood back then, even before those damn liberal Christian sects gave women the priesthood. Ruby’s …
A Reluctant Pioneer
By Stephen Carter Stephen Carter is the director of publications for the Sunstone Education Foundation. An earlier version of this article was presented as a sermon on 17 July 2016 at the South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. Or right-click to download the audio here: A Reluctant Pioneer …
You Can Give Him a Kiss
By Alison Maeser Brimley Or right-click to download the audio here: You Can Give Him a Kiss Alison Maeser Brimley is the winner of the 2017 and 2018 Association of Mormon Letters Short Fiction Awards and the 2017 Mountain West Writers Contest. She lives in Utah with her husband and daughter. This …
Adam and Lilith. And Eve.
By Ryan Shoemaker Ryan Shoemaker is the author of Beyond the Lights, a short story collection from No Record Press. His work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Gulf Stream, Santa Monica Review, Booth, Juked, and Silk Road. Or download the audio file here: Adam and Lilith. And Eve God took …
Circles of Light
By Susan Meredith Hinckley Susan Meredith Hinckley is an artist/writer living in Arizona who loves desert living, running, unanswerable questions, wind in her hair, and a bit of green chili in everything. Or download the audio here: “Circles of Light” “You’re a good person,” my psychiatrist once told me. “You’re …
Job’s Comforters
By Dana Haight Cattani Dana Haight Cattani was diagnosed with uterine cancer in April 2012. She lives with her family in Indiana. Or download the audio file here: Job’s Comforters A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver. Proverbs 25:11 Succor the weak, lift up the hands which …
The Excommunication of Charles William Kingston
By Charles Elden Kingston CHARLES ELDEN KINGSTON became interested in history while serving a mission in Salt Lake City at the Church History Library. He is the great-grandson of Charles William Kingston. Or download the audio file here: The Excommunication of Charles William Kingston The stories of church founders are never complete …