This topic deserves a more prominent notice than our sideblog. TIME magazine just published an article that details a new book about the private correspondence of Mother Teresa over a period of 66 years. It is interesting to see the two different faces - the public, faithful, resolute Mother Teresa masking her private, doubting, deep […]

Guest post by Bruce Jorgensen

I attended the private screening (and later discussion) of Richard Dutcher’s Falling at Sunstone on 9 August 2007, spoke very briefly about it with two friends later that afternoon, summarized it as best I could for my wife that evening, wrote a paragraph of somewhat more articulate thoughts to one friend […]

The 2007 Symposium was a great four days - if you missed it, you can begin downloading sessions soon on sunstoneonline.com
In the mean time we are going to be very nice and offer up a few sessions for free. Considering the interest in the bloggernacle, this one is a no brainer. We’ve been prepping for […]

My timing is impeccable. Last week I was asked to speak in sacrament meeting on the topic “Scripture”. It’s a fairly broad topic, but one that I felt comfortable with.
While in a masters program in 1999 I first encountered biblical criticism (hey, I’m late to the party, but I’m here). I found that my study […]

My mission president drove me nuts. He was dedicated to the work, he would push us incessantly, and he was goal oriented. Granted, I suspect just about every other mission president was also this way. Those are the traits you can expect. Those you can deal with. What drove me nuts was how much tolerance […]

I was standing on the beach with one of my mentors, a professor who forecasts much doom and destruction awaiting the human race. My children were playing in the tidepools in front of us. His wife was at home, nine months pregnant with twins, his beloved other two children halfway across the globe […]

Growing up in a family of all girls, I never knew much about boy scouts, other than knowing it wasn’t a group that concerned me. It wasn’t until just recently I even realized what the Boy Scout motto entailed. We received an invitation for an Eagle Scout ceremony in the mail that included the Boy […]

The greatest gift my mother gave me as a child was the nurturing of my natural curiosity. I feel a twinge of sadness when I see busy mothers respond to a child’s question of “why” with a quick “just because” or something equally as trite. Even as a child who probably used the word “why” […]

I enjoy listening to the This I Believe segment on National Public Radio. If you haven’t heard it before, you can see an archive here.
What strikes me about these essays is their positive nature, with the authors stating what they do believe. It seems that we, in this community, struggle sometimes to share our […]

Back again, this time with a pint o’ Wavy Gravy, toggling between a couple of pre-show warmup programs: American Idol and the Warriors-Mavericks game. I like Blake Lewis to go the distance in the former and Golden State in the latter. Okay, it’s 9:00, let’s get started!