EVERY SUMMER, MARY Ellen Robertson would start pushing the Salt Lake Symposium boulder up the mountain one more time, gathering volunteers and Sunstone staff together in the office for a week of intense nose-to-the-grindstone, pizza-fueled, caffeine-soaked program creation. First, there were the words. So. Many. Words. Gather a hundred Sunstone sessions together and you will find …
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The Widening Tent
By John Hatch Art by Chad Danger Lindsay Shivering and disoriented, I stared blankly into my car windows. Piles of snow blackened by car exhaust surrounded the parking lot, and the air was stale with smog. I was terrified. My wife and I had been married just under eighteen months. We were still trying …
2012 Salt Lake Symposium Preliminary Program is Up!
This year’s symposium examines “Mormons and Mormonism as a Political Force,” covering everything from early Utah women’s suffrage, to the Church’s involvement in the Equal Rights Amendment and anti-gay marriage legislation, to the possibility that a Mormon might take up residence in the White House. And more. Check out this year’s offerings.
Braving the Borderlands: Conducting a Self-assessment
Know thyself. —Greek Aphorism To thine own self be true, and [you cannot] be false to any man. —Shakespeare At the 2010 Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium (Session 124, 5 August SL10124), John Dehlin and I hosted a spirited discussion with about a hundred attendees about their individual Borderlander experiences. We primed the discussion with …
More from This I Believe
Four more video clips of the This I Believe panel from the 2008 Sunstone Symposium. This session is modeled on This I Believe, the 1950's radio series revived and broadcast on NPR. Participants crystallize an aspect of their core beliefs into a 350?¢Ç¨Äú500 word essay.