Category: Joseph Smith

Sunstone Podcast #13—Don Bradley: The Grand Fundamental Principles of Mormonism: Joseph Smith’s Unfinished Reformation »

If you’ve thought there was nothing new to discuss about the connections between Masonic influences on early Mormon history and theological development, you haven’t yet read Don Bradley’s article “The Grand Fundamental Principles of Mormonism: Joseph Smith’s Unfinished Reformation” in the April 2006 Sunstone. But even more than the new understandings about Mormonism and Masonry, [...]

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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 [...]

SunstoneClassic Podcasts #005 & #006–Carol Lynn Pearson’s Story, and the Book of Mormon as an “Anti-Masonic Bible” »

We proudly announce the release of 2 new (old) Sunstone Classic Podcasts:

SunstoneClassic 005: Carol Lynn Pearson–Personal Recollections of Marriage, Life, Love and Death: In this Sunstone Classic episode, Carol Lynn Pearson (LDS poet and author) discusses her journey with her husband, Gerald, as he struggled with homosexuality, AIDS, and ultimately death. This presentation was first [...]

 
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The Problem of Audience »

Are new insights into Mormonism waiting to be uncovered if we were only to pay more attention to the religion and less to its founder? In her article “Tracking the Sincere Believer” (Sunstone: December 2005), Laurie Maffly-Kipp entices us with such a promise, but I was forced to wonder at times to whom is the [...]

SunstonePodcast #009–Tracking the Sincere Believer: “Authentic” Religion and the Enduring Legacy of Joseph Smith Jr. »

In this edition of SunstonePodcast, Sunstone magazine editor Dan Wotherspoon interviews Professor Laurie Maffly-Kipp, author of the article, “Tracking the Sincere Believer: ‘Authentic’ Religion and the Enduring Legacy of Joseph Smith Jr.,” in the December 2005 issue of Sunstone and available here.
Maffly-Kipp discusses the obsession with Joseph Smith’s “sincerity” as the lens for looking at [...]

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