By Guest Contributor on Aug 21, 2007 in Arts, Mormon Cinema, Rotation, Sunstone, Symposium | 9 Comments
Guest post by Bruce Jorgensen
I attended the private screening (and later discussion) of Richard Dutcher’s Falling at Sunstone on 9 August 2007, spoke very briefly about it with two friends later that afternoon, summarized it as best I could for my wife that evening, wrote a paragraph of somewhat more articulate thoughts to one friend […]
By Matt Thurston on Jan 18, 2007 in Arts, Literature, Rotation, Sunstone | 13 Comments
I read Levi Peterson’s two short story collections, The Canyons of Grace (1982) and Night Soil (1990), as well as his two novels, Aspen Marooney (1995) and the incomparable The Backslider (1986) during the summer of 2005. At the time Peterson’s stories provided fuel for my mind and salvation for my soul. Both responses surprised […]
By Scot Denhalter on Dec 4, 2006 in Arts, Spirituality | 10 Comments
While serving a mission in Peru a couple of years before its first stakes were formed, my companions and I routinely requested of our baptismal candidates that they remove Catholic images from their homes. In doing this, we believed we were following a mission directive. I can’t now remember ever hearing such a directive delivered […]
By Rory on Nov 17, 2006 in Arts, Homosexuality, Rotation, Sunstone | 6 Comments
Last night I attended the premiere of Carol Lynn Pearson’s newest play, Facing East, presented by the Plan-B Theatre Company. It runs November 16 through November 26 at the Black Box at Rose Wagner Theatre in Salt Lake. If you have a chance, I encourage you to see it. If you have seen it, or […]
By Scot Denhalter on Sep 11, 2006 in Arts, Community, Literature, Rotation, Sunstone | 8 Comments
In my last article “Bad Stories,” I commented on the relative value of dark as opposed to lighter themes or subjects in Mormon narrative art forms. Reader comments generated a tangential and tantalizingly brief discussion of the problem of didacticism: making a story’s central theme explicit rather than implicit. I’d like to reopen […]
By Scot Denhalter on Aug 28, 2006 in Arts, Rotation, Sunstone, Symposium | 23 Comments
In the 2006 Sunstone Symposium panel discussion, Art from the Dark Side of Happy Valley (#SL6271), Richard Dutcher said Max Golightly, his professor at BYU, had once told him, “The first, great Mormon writer is going to be excommunicated.”
In years past, I would have seen this prediction as a form of posturing, but I have […]
