This is Sunstone’s perennially best-attended session. Hear speakers share the events and concepts that animate their religious lives—a little soul-baring, a little spiritual journey, a little intellectual testimony-bearing. This self-reflective night is about the things that matter most, including spirited congregational hymn-singing. Ardis E. Parshall, Camilla M. Smith
Speaker: Ardis E. Parshall
A ‘GATHERING’ STORM: THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT’S WORLDWIDE WAR ON MORMON PROSELYTING AND EMIGRATION
The Supreme Court’s 1879 ruling on the constitutionality of anti-polygamy laws triggered an offensive in the campaign to crush Mormonism. Within days of the Court’s ruling, the Secretary of State notified U.S. ambassadors to seek the help of foreign governments to “check the organization of [this] criminal enterprise” by halting the work of missionaries and …
The Many Voices of Brigham Young
The Many Voices of Brigham Young Over the course of his long life, Brigham Young dictated many thousands of letters to statesmen and entrepreneurs, churchmen and soldiers, autograph seekers, fur trappers, widows, gamblers, Indians, and whiners. To some he was brotherly, gracious, pastoral and collegial; to others he could be sarcastic, bitter, paternalistic, or dismissive. …