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Mormon Experience Scholarship Issues & Art MORMON EXPERIENCE SCHOLARSHIP ISSUES & ART ApproAching SUNSTONE the First Vision sAgA by stephen c. taysom (p.12) noah Van sciver illustratesillustrates the Book oF MorMon’s origins (p.23) kenny kemp on returning to the Mission Field (p.28) six MorMon stAy-At-hoMe dAds tell All (p.40) lisa torcasso downing on Burning the BeeF (p.51) A seAson in the Wilderness Fiction by larry Menlove (p.57)(p.56) updAte The extinction of young Mormon singles?, Painting LDS politics, Mormons in the news ; more . June 2011—$7.50 00b_inside cover:Cover.qxd 5/31/2011 7:32 PM Page 1 2011 Sunstone Utah Symposium August 3–6 Ogden Theme: Mormon artifacts & material culture more info: sunstonemagazine.com/symposium/ SUNSTONE MORMON EXPERIENCE, SCHOLARSHIP, ISSUES, & ART JUNE 2011 Issue 163 FEATURES 12 Stephen C. Taysom . APPROACHING THE FIRST VISION SAGA 23 Noah Van Sciver . VAN SCIVER’S BOOK OF MORMON ORIGINS 28 Kenny Kemp. THE RETURNING MISSIONARY: Only a Dream? 40 . SOME SAHD STORIES 40 Ken Gerber . RAISED BY ICE CREAM TRUCK DRIVERS 41 Stephen Carter . PLAYDATE WITH PRESIDENT BENSON 44 John Gustav-Wrathall . GAY-AT-HOME DAD 45 Luke Smithson . FIX IT! 47 Michael Stubbs . STAYING AT HOME IN A DADDLY FASHION 49 A. Joseph West. A STAY-AT-HOME DAD’S GUIDE TO FRENCH SOCIOLOGY SUNSTONE (ISSN 0363-1370) is published by The Sunstone 51 Lisa Torcasso Downing . THE SAGA OF BEEF GONE BAD Education Foundation, Inc., a non-profit corporation with no official ties to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 56 Larry Menlove . A SEASON IN THE WILDERNESS: Fiction Articles represent the opinions of the writers only. 76 Jeanette Atwood . ALMA: A PROPHET FORMING SUNSTONE is indexed in the Index to Book Reviews in Religion and Religion Indexes: RIO/RIT/IBBR 1975–on CD-ROM. POETRY Submissions may be by email attachment or on IBM-PC compatible computer discs (MS Word or WordPerfect format). 62 David Lawrence. MEMORABILIA Submissions should not exceed 8,000 words and must be 55 Mitchell Metz. MAPLES accompanied by a signed letter giving permission for the manuscript to be filed in the Sunstone Collection at the University of Utah Marriott Library (all literary rights are COLUMNS retained by authors). Manuscripts will not be returned; authors will be notified concerning acceptance within ninety days. CORNUCOPIA SUNSTONE is interested in feature- and column-length articles 4 Greg Moellmer. MORMON MUSINGS: The Wedding Ring relevant to Mormonism from a variety of perspectives, news 4 Miriam A. Smith . WARD STORIES: In Defense of Polygamy— stories about Mormons and the LDS Church, and short reflections Well, Sort Of . and commentary. Poetry submissions should have one poem per page, with the poet’s name and address on each page; a self- 6 Michael Vinson . SCRIPTURE NOTES: Jesus and Nietzsche on addressed, stamped envelope should accompany each “Becoming a Child” submission. Short poems—haiku, limericks, couplets, and one- liners—are very welcome. Short stories are selected only through 7 Curt Bench . ADVENTURES OF A MORMON the annual Brookie and D. K. Brown Memorial Fiction Contest BOOKSELLER: Very Social Lives (next submission deadline: 30 September 2011). Letters for publication should be identified. SUNSTONE does 8 James P. Harris . A PLACE FOR EVERY TRUTH: Calling an not acknowledge receipt of letters to the editor. Letters addressed Apostle to specific authors will be forwarded, unopened, to them. TOUCHSTONES: Promised Land SUNSTONE will not provide subscriber addresses 10 Begnt Washburn. Right Where We Stand to mail list solicitors without permission. Send all correspondence and manuscripts to: 10 H. Wayne Schow . Special Status SUNSTONE 63 D. Jeff Burton . BRAVING THE BORDERLANDS . : Bits and 343 N. Third West Pieces From the Inbox Salt Lake City, UT 84103-1215 (801) 355-5926 66 Michael Farnworth . 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Cover art by Galen Smith Printed in the United States of America. 02-03_letters:02-04_letters.qxd 5/31/2011 10:53 PM Page 2 SUNSTONE YEA, YEA NAY, NAY STILL ON THE PLAINS general authority. Speak out in church. There is too much pain. In our “people HAT A LOVELY SURPRISE to see a church,” many are ready to accept our gay W short piece from No More Goodbyes brothers and sisters as full members of our Founded in 1974 Editors Emeritus printed as “An Olive Leaf” in issue 162. community. In our “institutional church,” SCOTT KENNEY 1974–1978 By way of synchronicity, the mail carrier the tiny steps forward are shamefully insuf- ALLEN D. ROBERTS 1978–1980 PEGGY FLETCHER 1978–1986 who brought the magazine today took with ficient. ELBERT EUGENE PECK 1986–2001 DAN WOTHERSPOON 2001-2008 him a copy of No More Goodbyes that I had Blessings as you carry on your good Publishers Emeritus signed and placed on my mailbox to go to work. DANIEL H. RECTOR 1986–1991 WILLIAM STANFORD 2000–2008 one of our dear gay young people still “on CAROL LYNN PEARSON Editor the plains” in a harsh winter. This is the Walnut Creek, California STEPHEN CARTER Director of Outreach and Symposia note I received via Facebook this morning: MARY ELLEN ROBERTSON Associate Editor APP ROCKS CAROL B. QUIST I live in Utah . I visit teach a Section Editors woman who believes that she was EY, I DOWNLOADED SUNSTONE’s PHYLLIS BAKER, Fiction Contest Coordinator DAN WOTHERSPOON, Touchstones, Cornucopia, An Olive Leaf told in general conference to kick H new app on my iPad, and I must say, it LISA TORCASSO DOWNING, Fiction her gay daughter to the curb. I did rocks! The color is stunning, the text is ALAN AND VICKIE EASTMAN, “Righteous Dominion” JAMES P. HARRIS, “A Place for Every Truth” my best to dissuade her, but that crisp, and I love the embedded video and HUGO OLAIZ, News/Update DIXIE PARTRIDGE, Poetry mother believed she was doing links. You’ve just made a subscriber for life. DALLAS ROBBINS, “In the World” God’s will, and now the daughter is My church activity has definitely in- ALISON TAKENAKA, “Margin Notes” MICHAEL VINSON, “Scripture Notes” in the hospital, stomach pumped, creased since getting the app. No longer do wrists and ankles tethered. I sup- I play Plants vs. Zombies when the lesson is Editorial Assistants JOHN-CHARLES DUFFY, HUGO OLAIZ pose this is a simple message to say, boring. Instead, I righteously open the Contributing Columnists please keep speaking out in charity SUNSTONE app and do a bit of reading. D. JEFF BURTON, MICHAEL FARNWORTH Cartoonists and kindness and love and accep- Once, I even lifted a quote from an article to JEANETTE ATWOOD, CAMI THORNOCK. JONATHAN DAVID CLARK, JONNY HAWKINS tance and never stop. Thank you. share during a class discussion. They were Much-Appreciated Volunteers very impressed with its insight. ADRIANE ANDERSEN, SUSAN ANDERSEN, PHYLLIS BAKER, LES AND SHANON GRIPKEY We Mormons will look back on this era May the SUNSTONE app roll forth and fill DON AND LUCINDA GUSTAVSON, BRUCE JENSEN with such shame. I ask that all of us do the earth! ANN M. JOHNSON, LLOYD PENDLETON, MARY BETH PENDLETON, SHERRI PENDLETON more than we are doing now. Speak to your JON FENSTER CAMI THORNOCK, SHARI THORNOCK bishop, to your stake president. Write to a Tallahassee, Florida THE SUNSTONE EDUCATION FOUNDATION The mission of The Sunstone Education Foundation is to sponsor open forums of Mormon thought and experience. Under the motto, “Faith Seeking Understanding,” we ex- amine and express the rich spiritual, intellectual, social, and artistic qualities of Mormon history and contempo- rary life. We encourage humanitarian service, honest in- quiry, and responsible interchange of ideas that is respectful of all people and what they hold sacred. Board of Directors MICHAEL J. 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