Matt Page is no slacker. He’s motivated. Instead of being just a “Good Samaritan,” he is striving to become a “Great Samaritan.” Whereas “most people know all the words to a few select hymns, [he knows] the first line of many different hymns.” He confesses that he is “white but not delightsome.” He will testify …
Category: Issue 162–March 2011
Poem: March
By Mark Katrinak Winter will finally drift, die. Snow still upon the trees, the basement windows blurred by masks of white. Wind howls inside the mind. Without a key it crept inside and stayed. But you and I—we are not done. There’s still some meat left, tender on our bone, and we’ve not finished eating …
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Letters to the Editor: Issue 162
On Glenn In her letter to the editor (Sunstone 161, December 2011) about my article “Glenn Beck: Rough Stone Roaring” (Sunstone 159, June 2010), Kathryn Hemingway says that I ignore the fact that Beck apologized for calling President Obama a racist. In truth, confronted with his words the next day, Beck said, “Well, I stand …
Update: Issue 162
Mormons: Friendly But Friendless The Mormon blogosphere is buzzing with the release of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us. Co-written by political scientists Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell, the book chronicles recent shifts occurring in the U.S. religious landscape and includes some revealing statistics about Mormons. “The bottom line for Mormons, …
A View from the East
For some reason, I always seem to come in on the end of a trend, so I had never read anything by Deepak Chopra until his 2008 book, The Third Jesus. As a lifelong Mormon, I’ve endured many Gospel Doctrine classes where time was spent speculating on how a few fish and a couple of …
The Truth Inside
This time last year, I lost my lovely mother. While this event caused a very big door in my life to close, it also opened a window. I come from a very strong LDS family. Every discussion at every meal was about something Church-related. Everything I did or thought in my life was processed through …
Even if It is Chilly
When we think of “opening a window,” most of us think of viewing some aspect of the outside world we know little about. We glimpse what it is like to be an American Muslim or how an itinerant fruit-picking family lives. We peek in on a Mormon in Nigeria or a highly paid fashion model …
A Mission—Really?!
This article features Tom Kimball who is in violation of our code of conduct. For more info on Tom Kimball and his history, click here for the January 14, 2023 statement. As the chaos of the remodel drew to a close and the last of the carpet was laid, our two oldest children settled into …
People: Issue 162
Resigning. JON HUNTSMAN, Jr., 50, after serving one year as U.S. ambassador to China. The son of billionaire businessman and philanthropist JON HUNTSMAN and grandson of LDS Apostle DAVID B. HAIGHT, Huntsman is reportedly exploring a 2012 Republican presidential bid. Excised. FRED HUNTING, who played the part of the apostle John in the 1991 temple …