In this episode, Lindsay and Bryan dive into one of the most violent and outrageous chapters of early Mormon history: the “Runaway Officials” scandal. When federal appointees tried to enforce U.S. law in Utah Territory, they faced threats, beatings, and sabotage from a theocratic regime that ran more like a mafia than a government. From …
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Eternal Perdition? Bureaucratic Limbo? The Theological Ramifications of Excommunication with JANICE ALLRED, LAVINA FIELDING ANDERSON, MARVIN RYTTING, MARGARET TOSCANO, PAUL TOSCANO
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Borderlands: A Play–Part II
Continued from Part I SCENE SEVEN (BRIAN and PHYLLIS sit in the office, waiting.) PHYLLIS: I don’t know why we’re doing this. We don’t need you. BRIAN: Whatever. PHYLLIS: I run this car lot. I decide who works here and who doesn’t. BRIAN: I was told to wait here for Dave. Is that …
Borderlands: A Play–Part 1
Introduction Borderlands marks a place of intersection, a liminal space where roads end but new paths begin, where no horizons reveal themselves but also where collisions do us harm. I’m a believing, practicing Mormon, and Mormonism is at its most essential a religion that preaches literally endless human possibilities, eternal progression, and growth. But we …
Braving the Borderlands: Strange Tales from the Borderlands
By D. Jeff Burton D. Jeff Burton is an author and a former member of the Sunstone Board of Directors. In this column, I share some unusual—and sometimes troubling—experiences and observations from four Borderlanders. I’ve changed the names of the first three. To respond, please send an email to jeff@eburton.com. I will forward your messages …