By Clay Whipkey, Guest Contributor
If there is a common thread in the Sunstone community, it might just be the fascination with knowing insider information about things which are complex and mysterious. So if you’ll allow me to channel Leonard Arrington for a moment, I’m going to pull back the curtain on the Sunstone audio archives [...]

Pardon the (brief) interruption to the gay marriage discussions.
I wanted to direct your attention to the revised version of the 2008 Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium preliminary program posted on the Sunstone web site. At this writing, the symposium is 16 days away. There’s a lot of work to do and much to look forward to! [...]

Friends of Sunstone,
Thanks (in part) to those of you who were able to contribute during our midyear fund-raiser, we (the staff plus a few gracious volunteers) have been working very hard over the past several months on 2 major initiatives for your benefit (in addition to the regular delivery of magazines and symposia):

Sunstone Magazine Digitization [...]

A new pamphlet about homosexuality appeared on the church’s website in late July, 2007. The pamphlet is entitled God Loveth His Children, and, among other things, says that the Church does not know what causes same-sex attractions but does not believe sexual abuse and sexual experimentation in childhood are responsible. It declares that same-sex [...]

As noted at BCC, Sunstone is holding a regional symposium in Cambridge, MA on November 1-3, 2007, at the Harvard Divinity School.
The full program (still in draft form) can be found here. Some highlights include….

Friends of Sunstone,
We’re writing to ask for your assistance for the December Sunstone issue, which we hope to send to press just before Thanksgiving. In addition to Sunstone’s regular magazine features, for this December issue, we’re planning a cluster of pieces about the Helen Whitney PBS documentary, The Mormons, which aired 30 April/1 May. Helen [...]

We’ve put together a short, 10 minute video on the case for Sunstone — as told by J. Bonner Ritchie: retired BYU professor, active member of the LDS church, and avid Sunstone supporter.
We hope you enjoy! Please consider supporting Sunstone today — either by subscribing to the magazine, purchasing some MP3s or making a [...]

We’re having a get-together Wednesday night in Encinitas, CA. 7pm.
The topic will be “the future of Sunstone” — and how we can work together to make it happen.
If any of you are interested in coming, please shoot me an email. We’d love to have you there!!!
John Dehlin

For those interested, here’s a link to today’s interview on KCPW about this week’s symposium.