All that money and no place to spend it? All those weird relatives and no gift ideas in sight? Never fear: Sunstone (which has always believed that capitalism and consumerism CAN be reconciled) has suggestions with very helpful links directly to the places you can buy them!

Brother Brigham
By D. Michael Martindale
Zarahemla Books

So you’re mowing the lawn when Brigham Young appears to you, all decked out in his heavenly bathrobe. He gives you some instructions, and despite your misgivings, you follow them and find $150,000 in a duffel bag on the side of the road. Good old Brigham tells you to get your family some nice food with it, a new car, and – what the heck – cable television. After all, your wife loves the History Channel.

Then you find out that Brother Brigham has even more in mind. Namely, he wants you to bring polygamy back into the world.

People on your list who might like this book:
-Your Stephen King-loving uncle
-Snooty old Eliza who thinks Mormons can’t write

States of Grace
Directed by Richard Dutcher
Mainstreet Movie Company

What happens when two Mormon missionaries bring a homeless preacher in off the street? What happens when a gang member embraces the gospel? This is a film that takes Mormonism seriously, along with pretty much everything Mormons love in a movie: lots of action, a gripping story, and a burning testimony of the atonement. Not to be missed.

People on your list who might like this movie:
-The teenager who recently went all weird on you.
-Snooty old Eliza who thinks Mormons can’t make movies

The Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ (Vols. 1-3)
Edited by Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Thomas A. Wayment
Deseret Book
So these guys as Deseret Book were thinking it was about time to do a little update on the Biblical scholarship since Talmage’s Jesus the Christ. It’s only been, what, 80 years? So they collected articles by Mormon scholars presenting “up to the minute” research. Yes, the minute. It says so on Deseret Book’s web site.

This set has received rave reviews from all quarters. And if you don’t like it, at almost 500 pages each, doorstops will no longer be an issue in your home.

People on you list who might like this:
-Your Sunday school teacher who obviously hasn’t cracked any book but the instruction manual in 25 years.
-Your scholar grandpa who needs yet three more titanic volumes on his bookshelves to balance out his large print Journal of Discourses
-Snooty old Eliza who thinks Mormons can’t think

The Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer
By The Staff of the Sugar Beet
Edited by Christopher Kimball Bigelow
Pince-Nez Press

Remember the Sugar Beet, the online Mormon satire magazine you used to read only when you’d finished watching every last stupid movie on You Tube? It had articles like: “Man’s Addiction To Wife Destroying Relationship with Porn,” and “Utah Man Votes Democrat Just to See What it Feels Like.” Well, like the bratwurst you ate last night, it’s back to haunt you.

The best articles in The Sugar Beet have been brought back from the grave and resurrected gloriously in The Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer. Publisher’s Weekly loved it, The Utah Chronicle loved it, Eric Snider loved it, and (gasp!) Fox 13 loved it. Anyone who doesn’t love this book will be given a calling they really really hate.

People on your list who might like this book:
-The one non-Mormon in your neighborhood (imagine his surprise when he finds this instead of the Book of Mormon at the bottom of the goodie basket you bring!)
-Your bishop (to prevent him from becoming the second non-Mormon in your neighborhood)
-Snooty old Eliza who thinks Mormons can’t laugh at themselves without their heads imploding

A Subscription to Sunstone

(I want my five bucks now, Dan.)

Any other suggestions from you folks out there in blog land?