UPDATE: The final program for Sunstone SymposiumWest is now available. This symposium is co-sponsored by the Claremont Graduate University School of Religion and the Claremont Mormon Studies Student Association.
–> SUNSTONE SYMPOSIUMWEST - Final PDF <–

14–15 MARCH 2008
CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA

Friends,
Thank you so much for the terrific response to our call for short essays on Mormonism and politics. We’ve received more than thirty reflections, and we look forward to creating a great section out of these responses in the coming magazine issue.
I’m writing now to ask for anecdotes, experiences, and observations about President Hinckley.

A new Sunstone magazine issue is in the mail, and we’re now working on a special issue about Mormonism and politics to go to press in three weeks. We’ve commissioned several pieces exhibiting a variety of approaches to this theme, and we are excited by what we received.
We’d very much like help with […]

A note from Richard Dutcher:
Dear Friends,
I want to personally invite you to see my latest film, Falling, which opens at the Gateway Megaplex in Salt Lake City on Friday, January 18.
Falling is the story of a Hollywood videographer (and lapsed Mormon) in spiritual freefall. Dan Nailen of Salt Lake Magazine calls it “relentless” and “shocking.” […]

Please mark your calendars for the 2008 Sunstone West Symposium! It will be held on 14-15 March on the Claremont Graduate University campus in Claremont, California.
Most of you already know that CGU has recently named Richard L. Bushman to a visiting professorship in Mormon studies to begin fall 2008, with plans for a […]

I’m posting to alert everyone that the June 2007 issue of Sunstone is now in the mail. We’ve also posted two pieces from it online. They are:
“Loving a Killer Whale,” by Joanie Ellis Tidwell. This is a beautiful, very emotional but ultimately triumphant story of the author’s coming to terms with her […]

The preliminary program for the Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium has just gone to press. Here is an online version. This version will be updated periodically in the weeks between now and the symposium as we continue to add panelists and respondents to some of the sessions.
This year’s symposium will be held 8-11 […]

There have been a few exchanges about Sunstone on one of my email discussion groups in the past several days that have given voice to a sentiment I hear from time to time: that Sunstone seems to have gone “soft.” The main protagonist in that online conversation claimed that it “seems the era of challenging […]

We’re just now sending out the Call for Proposals for our 2007 Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium to be held 8-11 August at the Sheraton Salt Lake City Centre Hotel. Proposal deadline is 1 May 2007. For those interested in details about how to propose a session, here is the official Call for Proposals flier.

Sunstone is calling for proposals for the Sunstone West symposium to be held at the San Francisco Airport Clarion Hotel on Saturday, 21 April. The symposium will be a one-day affair with two to three breakout sessions per time slot, along with a luncheon and a plenary session.
Proposal deadline is 28 February. For […]