By John Dehlin on Aug 4, 2006 in Joseph Smith, Sunstone, SunstonePodcast | 5 Comments
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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By Rory on Jun 28, 2006 in Community, Joseph Smith, Rotation, Sunstone | 14 Comments
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 [...]
By John Dehlin on May 11, 2006 in Book of Mormon Historicity, Homosexuality, Joseph Smith, Sunstone, SunstoneClassic Podcast | 2 Comments
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 [...]
By Scot Denhalter on Apr 12, 2006 in Joseph Smith, Mormon Studies | 3 Comments
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 [...]
By John Dehlin on Mar 29, 2006 in Joseph Smith, Podcast, Sunstone, SunstonePodcast | 8 Comments
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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