Cover_129.qxd 10/15/2003 10:05 AM Page 2 MORMON EXPERIENCE SCHOLARSHIP ISSUES & ART THE MAKING OF IMMANUEL: SUNSTONESUNSTONE Brian David Mitchell and the Mormon Fringe by John-Charles Duffy (p.34) NEBULA an England essay contest winner by Mari Jorgensen (p.46) Experience the YEAR OF THE CICADA a story by Joe Peterson (p.52) Surviving BYU and Berkeley by Joanna Gardiner (p.57) IN MEMORIAM: Dean L. May and Stanley B. Kimball (p.6) 2003 Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium Report (p.68) UPDATE Conference news: Church members arrested after confrontations with street preachers; LDS leaders speak out on same-sex marriage legislation; WHY WE STAY Samoan temple burns down; Book stirs controversy; FIVE PERSPECTIVES New LDS films; More! (p.74) J. Frederick “Toby” Pingree, October 2003—$5.95 MaryAnne Hunter, Bill Bradshaw, Grethe Peterson, & Thomas F. Rogers ifc.qxd 10/15/2003 10:08 AM Page 1 Washington MOLLY BENNION—ORGANIZER ROY BENNION LEVI S. PETERSON RICHARD DUTCHER MARNI CAMPBELL ARMAND L. MAUSS THERESA ROTH CHARLOTTE ENGLAND TOM MUMFORD SUSAN PALMER JULIE MUMFORD DAVID HUNTER DAN PINGREE SAGE JOHNS LEAH SMITH pecial thanks to this year’s fall regional symposium volunteers! S Tape order form, page 73 Texas STEVE ECCLES—ORGANIZER MARGARET BLAIR YOUNG ROBERT H. BRIGGS DARIUS GRAY DAVID FEATHERSTONE ARMAND L. MAUSS CLIFTON JOLLEY VICKIE STEWART EASTMAN PAUL H. SMITH DARRELL FLETCHER LAEL LITTKE 01_toc.qxd 10/15/2003 11:19 AM Page 1 MORMON EXPERIENCE, SCHOLARSHIP, ISSUES, & ART OCTOBER 2003 Issue 129 FEATURES 22 J. Frederick “Toby” Pingree, . WHY WE STAY MaryAnne Hunter, Bill Bradshaw Grethe Peterson, Thomas F. Rogers 34 John-Charles Duffy . THE MAKING OF IMMANUEL: Brian David Mitchell and the Mormon Fringe 46 Mari Jorgensen . NEBULA—An Artists Journey: 2003 Eugene England Memorial Personal Essay Contest Winner 52 Joe Peterson. THE YEAR OF THE CICADA: 2000 Brookie & D.K. 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All payments must be in U.S. funds drawn on a U.S. bank. All international subscriptions will be sent via surface mail. 68 . 2003 SALT LAKE SYMPOSIUM REPORT Bona fide student and missionary subscriptions are $10 less than the above rates. A $10 service charge will be deducted from 80 Dean L. May . AN OLIVE LEAF: Vessels of Honor refund amount on cancelations. UPDATE Printed by A “Green” Shop 74 . Two conference-goers arrested in clashes with street preachers; Church to re-develop a portion of downtown Copyright © 2003, The Sunstone Education Foundation. Salt Lake City; Samoan temple burns down; Best-selling All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. book on Mormonism draws criticism; and More! Cover Art: Melanie Warner, <www.mwarner.com> 02-05_letters_FINAL.qxd 10/15/2003 10:08 AM Page 2 SUNSTONE YEA, YEA NAY, NAY the Church and its leadership should not be Founded in 1974 KNOW WHEN TO SHUT UP SCOTT KENNEY 1974–1978 astonished that his or her progeny become ALLEN D. ROBERTS 1978–1980 HE PRACTICAL LOGIC OF ARMAND “children of the purge” and cease to affiliate PEGGY FLETCHER 1978–1986 DANIEL H. RECTOR 1986–1991 T L. Mauss’s response in the July 2003 is- with the Church. That agency and individual LINDA JEAN STEPHENSON 1991–1992 ELBERT EUGENE PECK 1986–2001 sue of SUNSTONE is more compelling than choice are basic gospel principles does not Editor Lavina Fielding Anderson’s defiant and ar- nullify that certain choices risk negative con- DAN WOTHERSPOON Publisher dent diatribe about “ecclesiastical abuse.” sequences. WILLIAM STANFORD Confidence in the efficacy of Church gov- “So-called intellectuals” and academicians Associate Editor CAROL B. QUIST ernance is based on members’ fundamental sometimes seem to mistakenly think they are Managing Editor faith that the First Presidency and the the only smart (or the smartest) people in the JOHN HATCH Quorum of the Twelve, though human, act in Church and the only ones who think for Section Editors MICHAEL AUSTIN, book reviews accordance with their collective divine inspi- themselves. Likewise, many LDS feminists PHYLLIS BAKER, fiction contest SCOT DENHALTER, Cybersaints ration. Anderson’s criticism of the leaders’s wrongly tend to profess that their agenda and ALAN AND VICKIE EASTMAN, Righteous Dominion motives and their policy decisions belies her priorities represent the views and objectives HUGO OLAIZ, News/Update DIXIE PARTRIDGE, poetry professed faith and claim that she remains a of all female Church members. Both intellec- MARY ELLEN ROBERTSON, women’s studies MICHAEL SCHOENFELD, Sunstone Gallery “loyal Latter-day Saint.” She gives six exam- tuals and feminists have valid and important DARRON SMITH, The Long-Promised Day? ples of leadership decisions with which she views to contribute. But at times, both ALISON TAKENAKA, Margin Notes Editorial Assistants disagrees and pejoratively concludes, “Since groups need to learn when to shut up, or at NATHAN BANG, JOHN-CHARLES DUFFY, REBECCA ENGLAND ERIC JONES, HUGO OLAIZ, WILLIAM B. QUIST 1992, the level of authoritarianism in the least to quit whining publicly when their Contributing Columnists Church has increased dramatically.” Her “fol- agendas stall or fail. MICHAEL AUSTIN, D. JEFF BURTON MICHAEL NIELSEN, JANA RIESS low the prophet drumroll” paragraph is par- STEVEN HANSON Photographer and Taping Engineer ticularly vituperative and arrogant, making Vancouver, Washington STEVE MAYFIELD Cartoonists quite hypocritical her challenge, “We must KYLE ANDERSON, PAT BAGLEY, MACADE seek humility as a prerequisite for a more Much-Appreciated Volunteers NO RATIONALE FOR ABUSE ADRIANE ANDERSEN, SUSAN ANDERSEN, DEVERY ANDERSON, loving . community.” And Anderson’s PHYLLIS BAKER, MAXINE HANKS, BARBARA HAUGSOEN seven-point battle strategy for dissidents in HANK YOU FOR PUBLISHING THE LEANN HILLAM, STEVE MAYFIELD, BRANDON QUIST WILLIAM B. QUIST, KATHY WILSON the Church shows that she holds little or no T perspectives from Lavina Fielding respect for priesthood authority at any level Anderson and Armand L. Mauss (SUNSTONE, when leaders oppose or fail to adopt critics’ July 2003). 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