Tag: Sunstone Symposium

MITT ROMNEY AND THE CARTOONISTS: A 2012 UPDATE

A 2008 SUNSTONE Symposium session examined the range of political cartoons featuring Mitt Romney during the 2008 Republican primary race. Romney, now the party’s 2012 candidate, has been the subject of hundreds of political cartoons since 2008, but especially in 2011–12. This session looks at a selection of these cartoons and considers their role in …

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My First Sunstone Symposium

What was your first Sunstone Symposium experience like? What did you expect going in? What surprised you? What sessions were particularly memorable? Who did you meet? What ideas did you hear that inspired or invigorated you? Do tell! We’re collecting and publishing stories from first-time Sunstone Symposium attendees and from longtime symposium-goers who would like …

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Walking The Road To Emmaus

Luke 24:13-35 tells the curious and haunting story of two of Jesus’ disciples walking the long dusty road to Emmaus, discouraged and heartbroken after the crucifixion. They meet Jesus on the road, but they don’t recognize him. He walks and talks with them. Still they don’t recognize him. Could the road to Emmaus run through …

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FARMS Redux: Why I Don’t Trust FARMS Research

FARMS Redux: Why I Don’t Trust FARMS Research At the 2001 Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium, John Hatch’s paper, “Why I No Longer Trust FARMS Review of Books,” focused on FARMS’ reviews of the work of others. This paper focuses on FARMS’ own research concerning the historicity and divinity of the Book of Mormon, specifically its …

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The Evil Among Us: the Texas Mormon Missionary Murders

The Evil Among Us: the Texas Mormon Missionary Murders In 1974, missionaries Gary Darley and Mark Fischer vanished outside Austin, Texas, after dinner with disaffected recent convert Bob Kleasen. No bodies were found. Biological materials associated with both were recovered from a taxidermist’s bandsaw Kleasen had access to. In 1975 Kleasen was sentenced to death …

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