Strategies of both preliterate Christian artists and media moguls saturate Mormon iconography. This investigation of LDS art and icon sketches disparities between fundamental doctrinal texts and the religious imagery evolved today. A revealing look at scripture, science, and iconography may reflect the stark gaps in our spiritual omprehension of a latter-day orld. understanding and arrowing …
Speaker: TRACY MCKAY
Homemaking Radicalism And Homemaking Realities
The LDS Church has made it clear to women that their proper sphere of influence is the home; it is women’s responsibility to care for the spiritual, emotional, physical, and psychological health and well-being of all who live with them. Women’s myriad obligations to family and home fall under the category of Brad Kramer, Tracy …
SL10172: The Stories We Tell: How an Unpleasant Truth Can be More Inspirational than a Pleasant Fiction
Most stories in LDS publications almost always result in a predictably happy ending, but life doesn’t usually wrap up so tidily. Divorce, addiction, abuse, disability–they happen to the best of us no matter how righteous we are, and many of us feel the impulse to hide tragedy in our lives. While it can be terrifying …
SL10291: Pillars of My Faith
This is Sunstone’s perennially best-attended session. Hear speakers share the events and concepts that animate their religious lives: a little soul-baring, a little spiritual journey, a little intellectual testimony-bearing. This self-reflective night is about the things that matter most, plus spirited congregational hymn-singing. Eric Samuelsen is a playwright, a theatre director and historian, and a …
NW10002: Going
A growing number of LDS families don’t fit the traditional mold. Panelists discuss how they approach their departures from tradition and navigate script variations such as divorce, single parenthood, child rearing, and LGBT issues and map out new family traditions. Lee White, Aimee Heffernan, Tracy McKay, Diana Nielsen Sallie Grigg