As a non-Mormon writer for the PBS film, The Mormons, Jane Barnes found no novels about the Saints’ place in America. Her paper “Notes Toward a New Mormon Fiction,” asks questions about this absence, starting with the whereabouts of a Mormon Sound and Fury or My Antonia. How can Mormon writers look at their experience …
Speaker: Elbert Eugene Peck
Dissenting Opinions: Art From The Dark Side Of Happy Valley
Dissenting Opinions: Art From The Dark Side Of Happy Valley Mormon teachings depict the universe as driven by a plan, a plotline in which good will assuredly triumph over evil. Humans are believed to be essentially divine beings who will ultimately respond in accord with their truest nature. Given this framework, Mormons (like most people) …
ANGELS IN AMERICA REVISITED
Set during the Reagan era at the height of the AIDS epidemic, Tony Kushner’s Angels in America incorporates Mormonism’s sacred history into a symbolic universe that includes angelic visitations, prophetic callings, and seer stones. Ten years after the play was first staged, a six-hour, 60 million HBO production with Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, and Emma …
DOES IT MATTER HOW WE REMEMBER THE ABANDONMENT OF PLURAL MARRIAGE?
Twenty years ago, Michael Quinn demonstrated that plural marriage had been actively practiced within the Church after the 1890 Manifesto. Kathleen Flake’s recent book tries to explain why that was and what finally motivated the Church to abandon the practice between 1905 and 1910 in the context of the seating of Apostle Reed Smoot in …
We Want to Put your Ideas Into Print: A How-to-Guide for Publishing With the Mormon Press
We Want to Put your Ideas Into Print: A How-to-Guide for Publishing With the Mormon Press Is your essay, manuscript, or poem still sitting on your desk? Have you not put pen to paper because you don’t know how to get it published? If so, this session is for you! Editors and publishers of Dialogue, …
Bodies, Parts and Persons: Image and Identity in Women’s Lives
Bodies, Parts and Persons: Image and Identity in Women’s Lives Identity and worth in females have long been associated with culturally manipulated perceptions about physical beauty. The panel will explore the relationship of body image and the sense of self in girls and women. It will also discuss the effects that society’s obsession with physical …
Eternal Family Feud: The Alternate Voices Gameshow Showdown
Eternal Family Feud: The Alternate Voices Gameshow Showdown Part ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire,” part “Jeopardy,” part “Family Feud,” part “Hollywood Squares,” part seminary scripture chase, the Sunstone symposium has never seen an event like this. The alumni of BYU’s two most self- important alternative magazines–7th East Press and Student Review–square off to settle …
My Favorite Christian Psalms
My Favorite Christian Psalms Elbert Eugene Peck
FROM ENIGMA TO MADNESS: A Most Delightful, Engaging, and Enlightening Conversation with Val Avery
FROM ENIGMA TO MADNESS: A Most Delightful, Engaging, and Enlightening Conversation with Val Avery Elbert Eugene Peck
SUNSTONE AND THE ROLE OF INTELLECTUAL DIALOGUE IN THE CHURCH
SUNSTONE AND THE ROLE OF INTELLECTUAL DIALOGUE IN THE CHURCH Richard Ferre, Elbert Eugene Peck