By Stephen Carter on May 6, 2008 in Community, Featured, Socialization, Sunstone | 25 Comments
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 […]
By Jana on Sep 29, 2007 in Socialization, Sunstone, Symposium, Women's Issues | 5 Comments
In August I attended the Sunstone Symposium. In September I attended the Exponent II Retreat. Both were amazing experiences in their own way. At Sunstone I mingled with old friends, enjoyed intellectual panel discussions, and met people from the Bloggernacle. At the ExII Retreat I stayed up (too) late enjoying the […]
By Elise Eggett Johnson on Feb 25, 2007 in Community, Dissent, Rotation, Socialization | 3 Comments
I like reading Oprah Magazine better than I like reading the scriptures.
There, I said it. I find a lot of inspiration, motivation and truth in…..Oprah Magazine. My husband makes fun of me for it (lovingly, of course) and I’m sometimes a bit embarrassed at the confession of being a die-hard Oprah fan, but I guess […]
By Scot Denhalter on Feb 16, 2007 in Community, Dissent, Rotation, Socialization | 6 Comments
Some time ago I visited a web site for Mormon misfits (www.misfitmormon.com). As I read through the posts there, I wondered to myself, “What kind of eldritch creatures might these ‘Morms Out of the Norm’ be?”
By Stephen Carter on Sep 21, 2006 in Community, Rotation, Socialization, Sunstone | 14 Comments
A few years ago I embarked on a year’s worth of rage over an incident that would seem trivial to most people,
My sister went to London for six weeks. When she came home she was full of plays and books and people and places that she had seen, and, of course, she wanted to […]
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