Friends of Sunstone,
Thanks (in part) to those of you who were able to contribute during our midyear fund-raiser, we (the staff plus a few gracious volunteers) have been working very hard over the past several months on 2 major initiatives for your benefit (in addition to the regular delivery of magazines and symposia):

Sunstone Magazine Digitization […]

As noted at BCC, Sunstone is holding a regional symposium in Cambridge, MA on November 1-3, 2007, at the Harvard Divinity School.
The full program (still in draft form) can be found here. Some highlights include….

Friends of Sunstone,
We’re writing to ask for your assistance for the December Sunstone issue, which we hope to send to press just before Thanksgiving. In addition to Sunstone’s regular magazine features, for this December issue, we’re planning a cluster of pieces about the Helen Whitney PBS documentary, The Mormons, which aired 30 April/1 May. Helen […]

We are incredibly excited to announce two upcoming Sunstone Symposiums:

Sunstone Seattle on 10/13/2007 (with a workshop on the night of 10/12/2007): Details here. Registration should be available in the next few days.
Sunstone Boston on 11/3/2007: Please mark your calendars. We are working on the program and venue now. We are hoping to draw from […]

Friends of Sunstone,
Recently we decided to “set free” all pre-2005 Sunstone Symposium MP3s.
You can access them here.
We hope you enojoy this service.  If you do, please consider supporting Sunstone — either via a magazine subscription, or though a donation.
Sincerely,
The Sunstone Staff

We’ve put together a short, 10 minute video on the case for Sunstone — as told by J. Bonner Ritchie: retired BYU professor, active member of the LDS church, and avid Sunstone supporter.
We hope you enjoy! Please consider supporting Sunstone today — either by subscribing to the magazine, purchasing some MP3s or making a […]

We’re having a get-together Wednesday night in Encinitas, CA. 7pm.
The topic will be “the future of Sunstone” — and how we can work together to make it happen.
If any of you are interested in coming, please shoot me an email. We’d love to have you there!!!
John Dehlin

For those interested, here’s a link to today’s interview on KCPW about this week’s symposium.

I am proud to announce our newest member of SunstoneBlog.com–Lisa Tensmeyer Hansen. Please check out her interesting and witty introduction below, but most importantly, please give Lisa a hearty Sunstone welcome!!!
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I may be the only woman on earth damned by Bruce R. McConkie in front of thousands, with the shaming moment circulating regularly on […]

Please give a hearty welcome to our newest SunstoneBlog Contributor: Matt Thurston!!! Below is Matt’s abbreviated autobiography.
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I was born to goodly parents in Boston, Massachusetts. Richard Bushman, my first Bishop, ordained me as an infant, via osmosis it would seem, to a lifelong preoccupation with Joseph Smith and Mormon Culture, an ordination that would not […]