Join Sunstone for a unique plenary session, featuring two highly acclaimed authors. There will be a 35 minute Q&A with Reza Aslan, broadcasting from his home in California. He will be discussing religious reform and fundamentalism. After his broadcast Q&A, Judith Freeman wil ltalk about her latest memoir, “The Latter Days,” followed by a Q&A. …
Speaker: Judith Freeman
TWO ROADS TO THE TRUTH: APPROACHING HISTORY THROUGH RESEARCH AND IMAGINATION
Judith Freeman and Will Bagley have written a prizewinning novel and prize-winning history of the darkest event in Mormon history, the Mountain Meadows Massacre. In Freeman’s Redwater, three wives of John D. Lee describe life on the ragged edge of the Mormon frontier. Bagley’s Blood of the Prophets carries forward Juanita Brooks’s work through its …
Claimed by the Rush of Red Water
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 …