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 [...]

Four more video clips of the This I Believe panel from the 2008 Sunstone Symposium.
This session is modeled on This I Believe, the 1950’s radio series revived and broadcast on NPR. Participants crystallize an aspect of their core beliefs into a 350–500 word essay.

Sunstone Symposium 2008, Session 351. Panel: THIS I BELIEVE

This session is modeled on This I Believe, the 1950’s radio series revived and broadcast on NPR. Participants crystallize an aspect of their core beliefs into a 350–500 word essay.
Here, we share video clips of five essays.

What would you do if your 4-year old daughter laid her hands on your head when you were sick? If you weren’t really, really sick, would you stop her?  If you were really, really sick, would you stop her?  What if she gave you a blessing that moved you?  What if you were healed?  What would [...]

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 [...]

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” [...]

Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen!
-Traditional Pascha Greeting
Do you remember the first time it hit you that you are going to die? Maybe it was a sudden blow as a child, or maybe it didn’t really set in until you had your first child. I have not yet lost anyone close to me to [...]

In my previous post, I discussed how language limits our ability to describe our spiritual experiences. I appreciated the responses to my initial query. After I posted my thoughts, I had one of those Doh! forehead-hitting moments where I realized that what makes an event spiritual is its ineffability. If it was [...]

When I was a younger the phrase “burning in the bosom” always made me giggle. I mean, it was hard to say the word ‘bosom’ without thinking of large-breasted great aunts with names like “Deloris.” As I got older and realized the difficulty of using language to describe my own spiritual experiences into [...]

A blog post about Levi Peterson’s recent autobiography over at The Cultural Hall reminded me that I had intended to post Peterson’s classic 1988 Sunstone symposium speech (and later Sunstone magazine article) “A Christian by Yearning” shortly after posting my own blog post on the subject. Peterson borrows the name of his 1988 address [...]