In the summer of 1930, the poet John Neihardt took a detour from his intended destination and drove his 1927 Gardner down a remote trail on the desolate and impoverished Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Reservation was home to the Oglala Lakota, or the Sioux Indians, as we call them. At the time of the …
By Mark Thomas Mark Thomas earned an MBA from Northwestern University, and works professionally in public finance. He began his career as a real estate appraiser in Utah. “If we had poets, we’d be writing about the swallowing of Miami Beach by the sea.” Bruce Mowry City Engineer Miami Beach, Florida “In the …
By Mark Thomas Mark Thomas earned an MBA from Northwestern University, and works professionally in public finance. He is the author of Digging in Cummorah: Reclaiming Book of Mormon Narratives. For the first time in history, a conviction has developed among those who can actually think a decade ahead that we …
One of the highlights of the 2012 Sunstone Symposium was a unique performance of “Praise to the Man” as arranged by Kim McCall and performed by the Sunstone Ward Choir. Listen to it here: Praise to the Man
By Mark Thomas Soon after her second child was born, in 2005, journalist Florence Williams decided to have her breast milk chemically analyzed. To her surprise and consternation, she found that though she was eating a healthy diet, her milk contained trace amounts of pesticides, dioxin, and a jet-fuel ingredient, as well as high-to-average …
By John-Charles Duffy Art by Jeanette Atwood Book of Mormon “historicity” refers to the claim that the Book of Mormon is an authentic translation of an ancient volume of scripture. Whether or not one believes the Book of Mormon to be historical in this sense is maybe the most fundamental question affecting one’s relationship to …
