Before texts, tracking numbers, and two-day shipping, a letter could take months to cross the continent, assuming it arrived at all. In this episode, Lindsay and Bryan saddle up for the tangled story of Mormons, mail, freighting, and power in the American West, from Brigham Young’s ambitious Y.X. Company and the political chaos of the …
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Episode 160: The Heber J. Grant Journals—Fruits of a New Policy
Lindsay and Bryan are back in video form — and they’ve got a lot to talk about. The Church History Library just dropped a remarkable new digital resource: the Heber J. Grant journals, spanning more than sixty years of Mormon history and now available to casual readers and serious researchers alike. But the journals themselves …
SLC 2013 Symposium/ Session 101: Moving Towards Stillness
Rachel Maybe Whipple opens the first session of Sunstone titled “Moving Towards Stillness” on August 1st, 2013. [powerpress]
Sunstone App is Live!
Like your favorite mission companion, Sunstone can now follow you everywhere. Sunstone and PixelMags have teamed up to bring you the Sunstone app for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. The app is only 99 cents and comes with our current issue. All other issues are $1.99–more than 65 percent off the cover price. Subscription rates …
SL10252: In Memoriam: Linda Sillitoe
Writer and poet Linda Sillitoe’s death in April 2010 left a hole in the heart of Sunstone. Join us for remembrances from family and friends. JOHN SILLITO, PAUL SWENSON, PHYLLIS BARBER, ALLEN ROBERTS
SL10352: The Epistle of Paul: Homosexual Spirituality and the Redemption of Pleasure
Christians often use a single passage from Paul’s epistle to the Romans to scripturally justify their condemnation of same-sex orientation, attraction, and marriage. I critique a recent speech by Elder Bruce Hafen to Evergreen International, an organization that allegedly reclaims Church members from their same-sex orientation, and argue that Paul’s epistle can be read to …
Upcoming Sunstone Events!
Please join us for these upcoming events! 1 November 2009 “Ecology and Reverence in LDS Perspective” BYU professor Steve Peck will speak about the relationship between Mormonism and environmental stewardship. 6:00 pm Sunday November 1, at the Sunstone office, 343 N. Third West, Salt Lake City. 17 November 2009 “What Does Religious Studies Bring to …
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 …
SW08005: CONFESSIONS OF A KNIGHT ERRANT: THE POETRY OF A FAITHFUL REBEL
CONFESSIONS OF A KNIGHT ERRANT: THE POETRY OF A FAITHFUL REBEL Though better known to Mormon audiences for his non-fiction (his Defending Zion received the Mormon History Association’s Best Documentary History Award) and even his fiction (his first short story was published in Sunstone way back in 1976) Roger Robin Ekins has written – though …
PILLARS OF MY FAITH
PILLARS OF MY FAITH Sunstone is at an important crossroads, resulting in a new, board-approved strategic plan. We’re very pleased to share this vision with you and to have you join with us in creating Sunstone’s future. This is Sunstone’s perennially best-attended session. Hear speakers share the events and concepts that animate their religious lives; …