MORMON EXPERIENCE SCHOLARSHIP ISSUES & ART WAITING, England essay contest winner SUNSTONESUNSTONE by Lara Burton (p.16) CROSSING THE BRIDGE, Brown fiction contest winner by Alex Peterson (p.65) Kevin Christensen ON WAGGING THE DOG (p.6) J. Bonner Ritchie shares his Peacemaking Odyssey (p.56) HOW FOUND ART FOUND ME by Marylee Mitcham (p.62) Visit Carol Lynn Pearson in the Sunstone Gallery (p.40) NEWS Marjorie Pay Hinckley passes away; BYU professor argues biological basis for homo- sexuality; Apostle offers rare look inside the Quorum of the Twelve; Illinois regrets past persecution; New controversy over temple work for Holocaust victims; and much more! (p.75) May 2004—$5.95 Defending the Kingdom, Rethinking the Faith: How Apologetics is Reshaping Mormon Orthodoxy by John-Charles Duffy 2004 SALT LAKE SUNSTONE SYMPOSIUM 11–14 August • SHERATON CITY CENTRE HOTEL, SALT LAKE CITY oin us Wednesday 11 August when Sunstone welcomes MARGARET STARBIRD as this year’s Smith-Pettit Lecturer! Margaret's well-known books, The Woman with the Alabaster Jar and The Goddess in the Gospels: Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine were cited by J Dan Brown as major influences in shaping his bestselling novel, The Da Vinci Code. Raised Catholic, Margaret taught religious education for many years, was a Fulbright scholar, holds BA and MA degrees from the University of Maryland, and studied at Vanderbilt Divinity School. She travels extensively, speaking about Mary Magdalene and the sacred feminine in Christianity. Her latest books are The Feminine Face of Christianity and Magdalene’s Lost Legacy. The symposium will also feature its usual, varied fare of topics including panels and papers examining the many facets of LDS experience and history, reviews of the latest books, films, and television which touch on Mormon life, reflections on the Book of Mormon and other scripture, and much more. Make your plans early! Rooms at the hotel disappear fast. 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Rooms fill up quickly, and you Sunstone T-shirts, back issues of the magazine, or lengthened sub- must make your reservation by 24 JULY 2004. For reservations, call scriptions. If you can help, please call Sunstone at (801) 355-5926. The Sunstone Education Foundation, Inc. • 343 N. Third West, Salt Lake City, UT 84103 phone: (801) 355-5926 • fax: (801) 355-4043 • email: <[email protected]> MORMON EXPERIENCE, SCHOLARSHIP, ISSUES, & ART MAY 2004 Issue 132 FEATURES 16 Lara Burton . WAITING: 2004 Eugene England Personal Essay Contest, Second Place Winner 22 John-Charles Duffy . DEFENDING THE KINGDOM, RETHINKING THE FAITH: How Apologetics is Reshaping Mormon Orthodoxy 56 J. Bonner Ritchie . A PARADIGM SHIFT FROM CONFLICT TO PEACEMAKING: A Middle East Odyssey 62 Marylee Mitcham . HOW FOUND ART FOUND ME 65 Alex Peterson . CROSSING THE BRIDGE: 2000 Brookie & D.K. 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Lee statue Printed by A “Green” Shop constructed, then scrapped; and much more! Copyright © 2004, The Sunstone Education Foundation. Cover Design: Jeff Hale All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. SUNSTONE YEA, YEA NAY, NAY That said, I still found the articles very in- Founded in 1974 PHOBIA BY ANY OTHER SCOTT KENNEY 1974–1978 teresting. But, particularly interesting to me ALLEN D. ROBERTS 1978–1980 NAME—FLASHBACK was Ralph A. Olsen’s article, “A Malay Site for PEGGY FLETCHER 1978–1986 DANIEL H. RECTOR 1986–1991 Book of Mormon Events.” One reason for this LINDA JEAN STEPHENSON 1991–1992 ELBERT EUGENE PECK 1986–2001 H, YES: THE 2004 COMMENT OF is that, several years ago, I independently put Editor A Sheri Dew, president of Deseret Book forth the same idea myself. I didn’t do the ex- DAN WOTHERSPOON Publisher Company and best-selling biographer of tensive research that Olsen has apparently WILLIAM STANFORD Church President Gordon B. Hinckley, that done, but I find his logic and data quite com- Associate Editor CAROL B. QUIST she could barely stomach (i.e., felt nauseated pelling. He certainly makes a much better case Managing Editor at) seeing a photograph of a returned LDS for his argument than any of the apologists at JOHN HATCH missionary and his male partner being civilly FARMS do for theirs. As a proponent of Section Editors PHYLLIS BAKER, fiction contest married in San Francisco, each holding one Occam’s Razor (which Olsen cites in his end- SCOT DENHALTER, Cybersaints ALAN AND VICKIE EASTMAN, Righteous Dominion of their adopted daughters (SUNSTONE, notes), I find Olsen’s proposition is far more HUGO OLAIZ, News/Update March 2004, 73). “parsimonious” than the convoluted mental DIXIE PARTRIDGE, poetry MARY ELLEN ROBERTSON, women’s studies And yet, after expressing comments such gymnastics required to accept a New World MICHAEL SCHOENFELD, Sunstone Gallery DARRON SMITH, The Long-Promised Day? as this publicly and privately, social conserv- location for the Book of Mormon. Olsen refers ALISON TAKENAKA, Margin Notes atives bristle today when they are called “ho- to himself as “an old chemist meddling in hal- BRAD WOODWORTH, book reviews Editorial Assistants mophobic” by “so-called liberals,” and insist: lowed ground.” I must say that as an old geog- NATHAN BANG, JOHN-CHARLES DUFFY ERIC JONES, HUGO OLAIZ, WILLIAM B.