Sunstone is pleased to release the preliminary program for the 2008 Salt Lake Symposium. Download the PDF version here. You can also register securely online!
This year’s theme is “The Spirituality of the Rising Generation,” and the symposium will feature about a dozen sessions relating to the fit between today’s Mormonism and the life-worlds of today’s […]

We are seeking candidates for two positions: Director of Publications and Editor, and Director of Symposia and Outreach. These positions will report to the Sunstone Board of Trustees and will be expected to work and coordinate closely with each other.

Zenaida regularly contributes to the Exponent II blog. Her bio may be found here.

I am awash in ambivalence. I attended my first Sunstone Symposium on Saturday. I anticipated the symposium with both excitement and reservation. I had friends who shared my excitement and friends who intensified my reservation. The Symposium was […]

From genesis to completion, the creation of The Mormons did not happen in six days; more like three-and-a-half long years. As Lou Reed sings, “Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.” Or as T. S. Eliot puts it, “Between the idea and the reality . . . falls the shadow.”

UPDATE: The final program for Sunstone SymposiumWest is now available. This symposium is co-sponsored by the Claremont Graduate University School of Religion and the Claremont Mormon Studies Student Association.
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14–15 MARCH 2008
CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA

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 […]

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 […]

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

There have been a few exchanges about Sunstone on one of my email discussion groups in the past several days that have given voice to a sentiment I hear from time to time: that Sunstone seems to have gone “soft.” The main protagonist in that online conversation claimed that it “seems the era of challenging […]