By Grace Pool Grace Pool is a hand embroidery and digital media artist living in Salt Lake City. She is the events manager for Sunstone. Growing up, I did everything you’re supposed to do as a good Mormon. Sort of. I remember canning our own grape juice concentrate so we’d have fresh juice …
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A Fond Farewell
EVERY SUMMER, MARY Ellen Robertson would start pushing the Salt Lake Symposium boulder up the mountain one more time, gathering volunteers and Sunstone staff together in the office for a week of intense nose-to-the-grindstone, pizza-fueled, caffeine-soaked program creation. First, there were the words. So. Many. Words. Gather a hundred Sunstone sessions together and you will find …
The Widening Tent
By John Hatch Art by Chad Danger Lindsay Shivering and disoriented, I stared blankly into my car windows. Piles of snow blackened by car exhaust surrounded the parking lot, and the air was stale with smog. I was terrified. My wife and I had been married just under eighteen months. We were still trying …
2012 Salt Lake Symposium Preliminary Program is Up!
This year’s symposium examines “Mormons and Mormonism as a Political Force,” covering everything from early Utah women’s suffrage, to the Church’s involvement in the Equal Rights Amendment and anti-gay marriage legislation, to the possibility that a Mormon might take up residence in the White House. And more. Check out this year’s offerings.
Braving the Borderlands: Conducting a Self-assessment
Know thyself. —Greek Aphorism To thine own self be true, and [you cannot] be false to any man. —Shakespeare At the 2010 Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium (Session 124, 5 August SL10124), John Dehlin and I hosted a spirited discussion with about a hundred attendees about their individual Borderlander experiences. We primed the discussion with …
More from This I Believe
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?¢Ç¨Äú500 word essay.