Episodes
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The Swearing Elders: The First Generation of Modern Mormon Intellectuals
By Thomas A. Blakely Or click to download the audio file: The Swearing Elders: The First Generation of Modern Mormon Intellectuals. Read the text here. The post The Swearing Elders: The First Generation of Modern Mormon Intellectuals appeared first on Sunstone.
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A Peculiar People? How Neo-orthodoxy Has Crept Into the LDS Church
By Robert C. Hunsaker Robert C. Hunsaker is a clinical mental health counselor in Salt Lake City. Or right-click to download the audio file: A Peculiar People? How Neo-orthodoxy Has Crept Into the LDS Church In November of 2004 something so uncommon took place in the Salt Lake Tabernacle that...
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Thirteen Favorable Consequences of Ordaining Women
By M. Scott Fisher Or right-click to download the audio file here: Thirteen Favorable Consequences of Ordaining Women For a PDF version of the article, click here. First published in Sunstone almost 25 years ago, every word of Fisher’s article is still relevant today. The audio version of this...
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Sin Does Not Exist: And Believing That It Does Is Ruining Us
By S. Richard Bellrock S. Richard Bellrock has studied, taught, and worked in areas related to psychology and philosophy for 25 years. Or download the audio file here: Sin Does Not Exist: And Believing That It Does Is Ruining Us Sin is to morality as Zeus’s thunderbolt is to weather.1 That … The...
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The Tongue of Angels, Or the Mind of the Borg?
By Roger Terry Roger Terry is editorial director at BYU Studies and author of fiction and nonfiction books, short stories, serious articles, essays, and editorials. He blogs at mormonomics.blogspot.com. Or download the audio file here: The Tongue of Angels or the Mind of the Borg? On 30 May 1977…
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Single in the Borderlands
by Kristine Haglund Kristine Haglund is a former editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought and a blogger at By Common Consent. Or right-click here to download audio. The topic of being single and Mormon seems huge and difficult, probably because “single” is in no way a unitary category; my…
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Confessions of an Aging, Hypocritical Ex-missionary
By Wayne C. Booth Can it be good—even spiritually essential—to be a hypocrite? This professor of rhetoric thinks so. Wayne Booth shares the fruits of his life-long interior discussion between his boyhood Mormon religion fundamentalism and his adult “faith.” All of it, the direct result of his two...
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Salvator Mundi
By Robert A. Rees Robert A. Rees is the director of Mormon Studies at the Graduate Theological Union. He is compiling a collection of his essays on the Book of Mormon, and can be reached at [email protected]. On October 2017, I got a call from my son-in-law Paul Clark informing me that Salvator…
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An LGBTQ Borderlander
By D. Jeff Burton D. Jeff Burton is the author of For Those Who Wonder and a former member of the Sunstone board of directors. In this column I share the story of a gay/bisexual man I’ve become acquainted with over email. Names and details are changed to protect his privacy (and … The post An…
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Greenwashing In Zion
By Mark Thomas Mark Thomas earned an MBA from Northwestern University, and works professionally in public finance. He is the author of Digging in Cummorah: Reclaiming Book of Mormon Narratives. For the first time in history, a conviction has developed among those who can actually think a decade...
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Own Your Religion
By Gregory A. Prince Gregory A. Prince is the author of Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History (University of Utah, 2016), David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism (University of Utah, 2005), and Power from on High: The Development of the Mormon Priesthood (Signature, 1995).…
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Productivity and the Mormon Busyness Ethic
By Roger Terry Or right-click here to download the audio file: Productivity and the Mormon Busyness Ethic Work is an important aspect of what it means to be Mormon. When we talk about the early Saints, we talk about how they wore out their lives helping to build the Kingdom. For … The post...
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Mormonism and a Tragic Sense of Life
By U. Carlisle Hunsaker Or, right-click here to download the audio file: Mormonism and a Tragic Sense of Life A SENSE OF life is either one of our most precious possessions, or the source of our private hell. It is the emotional corollary of our personal philosophy of life, or the … The post...
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Exploring Meditation and Awareness Practices in the Context of the Restored Gospel: One Mormon’s Story
By John T. Kesler Or, right-click here to download the audio file: Exploring Meditation and Awareness Practices in the Context of the Restored Gospel: One Mormon’s Story I believe that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has the potential to engender the most profound and…
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Heavenly Motherhood: Silences, Disturbances, and Consolations
By Margaret Toscano Or download the audio file here: Heavenly Motherhood: Silences, Disturbances, and Consolations It was many years after I embraced feminism in the 1970s before I felt drawn to the Heavenly Mother, before I felt any emotional connection to even the idea of her. Priesthood first...
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