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.
–> SUNSTONE SYMPOSIUMWEST - Final PDF <–

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 [...]

In a recent series of interviews with John Dehlin at Mormon Stories, Richard Bushman made some comments about Sunstone and the Sunstone Symposium that strike at a number of challenges those of us in this community face. I don’t want this post to overshadow the significance of the content of these interviews, as the comments [...]

We’re just now sending out the Call for Proposals for our 2007 Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium to be held 8-11 August at the Sheraton Salt Lake City Centre Hotel. Proposal deadline is 1 May 2007. For those interested in details about how to propose a session, here is the official Call for Proposals flier.