Like 750,000 other California Mormons, I sat amongst my fellow ward members in our local chapel today as our bishop read the Preserving Traditional Marriage and Strengthening Families memo over the pulpit. He followed that by reading a memo outlining the church’s views on political neutrality. He closed by asking each of us to ponder […]

Sunstone is pleased to release the preliminary program for the 2008 Salt Lake Symposium. Download the PDF version here. You can also register securely online!
This year’s theme is “The Spirituality of the Rising Generation,” and the symposium will feature about a dozen sessions relating to the fit between today’s Mormonism and the life-worlds of today’s […]

The motto of Sunstone is “Faith Seeking Understanding.” But in the latest issue of the magazine, David Richardson questioned whether we follow our own motto when we decide what to publish.
A few issues ago Sunstone published an article by Margaret Toscano that takes a measurement of the progress the Church has made along feminist fronts. […]

As far as I can tell, religion’s function, up until about Christianity, was basically to hold a culture together with a unified narrative. In other words, it gave meaning to workings of a group of people. No one thought to question it. That would be like questioning air. The people’s belief in the religion (or […]

I watched The Merchant of Venice a few weeks ago, the one with Al Pacino (Shylock) and Jeremy Irons (Bassanio). It’s really an outstanding film. I just wish it didn’t have period prostitutes in it so I could show it to my class.
I had forgotten just how tautly Shakespeare draws the tensions in that play. […]

We are seeking candidates for two positions: Director of Publications and Editor, and Director of Symposia and Outreach. These positions will report to the Sunstone Board of Trustees and will be expected to work and coordinate closely with each other.

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I am awash in ambivalence. I attended my first Sunstone Symposium on Saturday. I anticipated the symposium with both excitement and reservation. I had friends who shared my excitement and friends who intensified my reservation. The Symposium was […]

The week between Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem and his triumphant resurrection from the dead is the most significant week in human history. Beginning with the early church, Christians celebrated the events of this week and for two millenia they have been the focus of annual celebrations of what has been called the Passion of […]

 

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From genesis to completion, the creation of The Mormons did not happen in six days; more like three-and-a-half long years. As Lou Reed sings, “Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.” Or as T. S. Eliot puts it, “Between the idea and the reality . . . falls the shadow.”