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MORMON EXPERIENCE SCHOLARSHIP ISSUES & ART SUNSTONESUNSTONE Stephen Carter examines the Three Sedating Sins of Sunday lessons (p.47) SACRED ENVY personal N Y experiences with E other religions TS by Jana Riess LS C (p.52) E IS A PARADIGM U SHIFT IN BOOK OF MORMON L AM STUDIES O A POSSIBLE? by Dan Vogel (p.69) C S I THE ANGEL R IN THE PIN- I STRIPED SUIT, N TW Brown fiction Y E contest winner by B Mari Jorgensen (p.42) Y I Review of Martha Beck’s Leaving the LA Saints by Tania Rands M Lyon (p.62) NEWS A P Hugh Nibley dies at 94; new missionary discussions en- courage creativity, A eschew formulas; Mormon fundamen- talisms in flux; people; and more! (p. 75) March 2005—$5.95 F Mark Your Calendars FOR UPCOMING SUNSTONE EVENTS LOCATION: Clarion Hotel San Francisco Airport SUNSTONE WEST 2005 401 East Millbrae Avenue Millbrae, California The hotel is approximately one mile south of the San Francisco Airport. Take US 101, and exit on symposium E. 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All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. SUNSTONE YEA, YEA NAY, NAY I’m especially inspired by John Dewey Founded in 1974 TRAINING BEGINS AT HOME SCOTT KENNEY 1974–1978 Remy’s essay about his practice of prayer, ALLEN D. ROBERTS 1978–1980 AURA BUSH’S FINE REFLECTION, even though he’s a skeptic. I very much liked PEGGY FLETCHER 1978–1986 DANIEL H. RECTOR 1986–1991 L “From Bunkerville to Babylon: Juanita learning about his devotions during the ad- LINDA JEAN STEPHENSON 1991–1992 ELBERT EUGENE PECK 1986–2001 Brooks and Phyllis Barber Tell the Story of ministration of the sacrament. He says: “I sit Editor Twentieth-Century Mormon Women’s Sexual in silence, seeking the divine light within me DAN WOTHERSPOON UNSTONE Publisher Training,” (S , December 2004) is and feeling it not only there, but also becom- WILLIAM STANFORD very thought-provoking—and disturbing. To ing aware that there are hundreds of little Associate Editor CAROL B. QUIST wit, from page 29, Brooks’s father’s statement: flames burning brightly in the hearts of all of Managing Editor “I’d hate to have the fellows discuss my who are sitting around me.” ALLEN HILL daughter like they did one girl this afternoon. I usually read scriptures during this time Section Editors PHYLLIS BAKER, fiction contest If she knew the things the boys say about her, but am now focusing on igniting my small SCOT DENHALTER, Cybersaints ALAN AND VICKIE EASTMAN, Righteous Dominion she’d be less free with her favors.” spiritual flame that could merge with the HUGO OLAIZ, News/Update From Brooks’s account, we learn that her glow of my community of believers seeking DIXIE PARTRIDGE, poetry BOYD PETERSEN, Mormonism and politics father listened to the stories about the girl. the enveloping light of Christ. MARY ELLEN ROBERTSON, women’s studies MICHAEL SCHOENFELD, Sunstone Gallery And we learn that he, who’s trying to teach LYNN MUMFORD DARRON SMITH, The Long-Promised Day? his daughter appropriate behavior, didn’t Salt Lake City, Utah ALISON TAKENAKA, Margin Notes BRAD AND CHERIE WOODWORTH, book reviews chastise the boys for their misbehavior. Editorial Assistants What would have been the effect on Juanita NATHAN BANG, JOHN-CHARLES DUFFY RECONNECTING ERIC JONES, HUGO OLAIZ had he been able to report that he’d snapped Contributing Columnists right back: “Now don’t you boys ever talk EAL CHANDLER’S PIECE, “KEEPING MICHAEL AUSTIN, D. JEFF BURTON MICHAEL NIELSEN, JANA RIESS that way about that girl or any other girl, N Faith and Reading Kafka” (SUNSTONE, Photographer and Recording Engineer STEVE MAYFIELD whether you think it’s true or not. Don’t you December 2004), is a wonderful gift, both for Cartoonists have any decency? And don’t you boys ever its prose and insight. Before her passing three KYLE ANDERSON, JEANETTE ATWOOD, JEFF HALE, MACADE do anything to any girls that could get them years ago, my grandmother was one of those Much-Appreciated Volunteers ADRIANE ANDERSEN, SUSAN ANDERSEN talked about that way, either. You have a re- “church-running ladies” that Chandler DEVERY ANDERSON, PHYLLIS BAKER, DEBRA DICKAMORE DON GUSTAVSON, BARBARA HAUGSOEN, LEANN HILLAM sponsibility to be decent to women and to speaks so fondly of and for whom the BEVERLY HOPPE, STEVE MAYFIELD, KATHY WILSON your own selves as men.” And what might Church in Germany was a vital part of her have been the effect on the boys, who, of life.