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Symposium Day 2 Open Thread

It’s day #2 of the Sunstone Symposium. Here are my thoughts on a few of the sessions. Feel free to chime in and share your thoughts and impressions…..

When King David Forgot His Hymn

Some people go to church to be spiritually refilled. Lately, I’ve been going in order to ponder why oh why I feel like I’m ten million light years away from these nice people sitting in the pews around me.

Pitching Tents

And it came to pass that when they came up to the temple, they pitched their tents round about, every man according to his family… every family being separate one from another.
Mosiah 2:5
The image of the gathering to hear the words of King Benjamin is interesting – each family within a tent, separate and distinct [...]

MoLit

There are few venues for Mormons to publish their literary efforts–Dialogue and Sunstone only publish a handful of works each year and magazines like Wasatch Review and Irreantum have struggled against hurdles of funding and finding volunteers to staff their publications. Perhaps the Net will provide the space where MoLit will be truly successful. Sites [...]

A Little Contention Here, Waiter!

The time has finally come.
I’m leaving a ward after attending here for five straight years. That’s a long time in Stephen years. Since my marriage, I have never stayed in a ward for more than a year and a half. I figured my brief tenures accounted for the fact that I have rarely developed [...]

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