6 – Sunstone Volume 7, no. 1-6 Jan.-Dec., 1982 

Publication Information: Published six times a year by the Sunstone Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Additional Information: Each issue has 64 pages. Illustrated.

Summary: Sunstone Magazine is a publication by a nonprofit corporation that discusses Mormonism through scholarship, art, short fiction, and poetry, The foundation began the publication in 1974 and considers it a vehicle for free and frank exchange in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Sunstone’s motto is Faith Seeking Understanding.Contents include:

• ON BEING HUMAN: THE FOLKLORE OF MORMON MISSIONARIES. WILLIAM A WILSON. Was that really one of the Three Nephites?
• GOTHIC GONE AWRY: VISITING THE JORDAN RIVER TEMPLE. RAY OWNBEY. A non-Mormon takes a look
• THE PERSISTENCE OF CHASTITY: A BUILT-IN RESISTANCE WITHIN MORMON CULTURE TO SECULAR TRENDS. HAROLD T. CHRISTENSEN
• EXHORTATIONS FOR CHASTITY: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF CHURCH LITERATURE. MARVIN AND ANN RYTTING
• A WISH LIST: COMMENTS ON CHRISTENSEN AND THE RYTTINGS. MARYBETH RAYNES. Three papers outlining the geography of Mormon sexuality
• ARE MORMONS JOINING IN WORLD SUICIDE? ARTHUR HENRY KING. Believers should be dissidents against the world
• THE CIVILIZING OF MORMONDOM: THE INDISPENSABLE ROLE OF THE INTELLECTUAL. LEVI S. PETERSON . Intellectuals can be agents of progress in the Church and the world
• ABORTION, RELIGION, AND THE CONSTITUTION. PETER STEINFELS. A Catholic writer reflects on a contemporary, moral testing ground
• A LIGHT UNTO THE WORLD: ISSUES IN MORMON IMAGE MAKING. PEGGY FLETCHER
• A LIGHT UNTO THE WORLD: ISSUES IN MORMON IMAGE MAKING.  BRUCE L. CHRISTENSEN. B.H. Roberts Society lectures on Church public relations
• THE FANTASY FACTOR IN CIVIL RELIGION: ASSASSINATIONS AND MASS MURDERS IN THE MEDIA AGE. ROBERT JEWETT AND JOHN S. LAWRENCE. The John Hinckleys may simply have the courage of our mythic convictions
• THE RUSSIAN CHIMERA. GARY L. BROWNING. Our menacing stereotype of the Russians is inaccurate and self-serving
• CAN NATIONS LOVE THEIR ENEMIES? EUGENE ENGLAND . An LDS theology of peace
• THE NATION STATE: IMMORALITY AND VIOLENCE. HOWARD BALL. So long as the nation-stale exists peace will remain an unfulfilled ideal.

• PROCESS PHILOSOPHY AND MORMON THOUGHT. FLOYD H. ROSS. Two views on a progressing God
• A RESPONSE. STERLING M. MC MURRIN
• AN ATTEMPT AT RECONCILIATION. ROBERT C. FLETCHER. An LDS scientist examines creation and evolution
• THE USE AND ABUSE OF RELIGION. KENNETH L. WOODWARD. Newsweek’s religion editor contemplates his beat
• ENLARGING THE MORMON VISION OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS. L JACKSON NEWELL. Our theology may promote a tsndency to be self absorbed
• LET THE WOMEN BE SILENT. LAURENCE R. IANNACCONE. Did Paul believe women should speak in church?
• BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH: MORMON THEOLOGY OF THE FAMILY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE. LAWRENCE FOSTER. The Shakers, the Oneida Perfectionists, the Mormons
• A RESPONSE. MARYBETH RAYNES
• A FURTHER INQUIRY INTO THE HISTORICITY OF THE BOOK OF MORMON. WILLIAM D. RUSSELL. Nephi’s world and the world of the Old Testament compared
• THE JEWISH JESUS. MICHAEL WALTON. Christ’s life as a practising Jew in ancient Palestine
• THE DANGERS OF REVELATION. SCOTT DUNN. A delicate, elusive, even tenuous phenomenon
• THE LIMITS OF REVELATION. KENT DUNFORD. A comprehension of the limitations will minimize many potential problems

• B.H. ROBERTS AT THE WORLD’S PARLIAMENT OF RELIGIONS (1893). DAVIS BITTON. A foray into an ecumenical jungle
• NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE MORMON PAST: REFLECTIONS OF A NON-MORMON HISTORIAN. LAWRENCE FOSTER. Second in a series on the writing of history
• DOES HISTORY UNDERMINE FAITH? JAMES L. CLAYTON
• HOW THEN SHOULD WE WRITE HISTORY? RONALD K. ESPLIN
• RELIGION AND THE DENIAL OF HISTORY STERLING M. MC MURRIN. Three articles in a series on the writing of history
• RETELLING THE OLD, OLD STORY. JONATHAN M. BUTLER. Interview with a Seventh-day Adventist historian
• THE ITALIAN MISSION 1850-1867. MICHAEL W. HOMER. Disillusioned with Italy’s Catholics, the Mormons went to the Protestant Waldenses
• FAWN M. BRODIE: THE WOMAN AND HER HISTORY. RICHARD S. VAN WAGONER. A personal look at Mormonism’s best-known rebel
• SHEAVES, BUCKLERS, AND THE STATE: MORMON LEADERS RESPOND TO THE DILEMMAS OF WAR. RONALD W. WALKER. Do the Saints owe their loyalty to conscience, church, or nation?
• MORMONS AND MOONMEN. VAN HALE. Did Joseph Smith believe missionaries to the moon would teach tall investigators in Quaker dress?
• BUT DICK TRACY LANDED ON THE MOON. JAMES B. ALLEN. Mistakes don’t discredit a prophet
• LIKE THE TIGERS OF OLD TIME. DAVIS BITTON. On censorship in Elizabethan England, Vatican Rome, and Mormon Utah
• THE LESS THINGS CHANGE. ROBERT GOLDBERG. On self censorship
• THE FOUNDATIONS OF FREEDOM IN MORMON THOUGHT. KENT F. ROBSON. Mormonism may require a belief in determinism
• HISTORY, FAITH, AND MYTH. C. ROBERT MESLE . An RLDS scholar argues that the truth of myth does not refer to factual accuracy.
• THE PUISSANT PROCREATOR. DOUGLAS MCKAY. Comic ridicule of Brigham Young

ART - THE AESTHETICS OF THE ENDOWMENT. MICHAEL HICKS. Some concerns about substituting film for live-action

LITERATURE - WE ARE ALL ENLISTED: WAR AS METAPHOR. STEPHEN L. TANNER. Should we feel uneasy about the martial strain in our religion?

PERSONAL ESSAY

• THE PHENOMENON OF THE CLOSET DOUBTER. D. JEFF BURTON. Remaining a Mormon despite disbelief
• WHOSE YOKE IS EASY? MARDEN CLARK . There are no shortcuts to wealth or culture.
• THE MORMON MASSES. DOUGLAS D. ALDER. Pop culture may be in poor taste. But immoral?

• THE GENEALOGY OF DELLA B. PAULSEN. JOSEPH PETERSON. Winner of the 1982 D. K. Brown Memorial Fiction Contest
• BAWDY AND SOUL. LYNNE LARSON. Second Place in the 1952 D.K. Brown Memorial
• Fiction Contest
• AUNT TEO. ALISON BOOTH. Third place in the 1982 D.K. Brown Fiction Contest
• MAKING SURE. WARREN EUGENE ICKE. Returning from Vietnam
• AND THEN SUNDAY IT SNOWED. MYRNA MARLER
• BORDERLAND. LINDA SILLITOE

HUMOR - NEW POLICIES: TRIBUTE TO MANHOOD. RICHARD K. CIRCUIT. An appreciation for the unique contribution of fathers

POETRY

• THE CORNER WINDOW. STEPHEN GOULD
• OH HOW TO BE THE WIND. LINDA SILLITOE
• SANCTUARY. DAWN BAKER BRIMLEY
• MORMON MISSIONARIES BRING BASEBALL TO THE NETHERLANDS. ROB HOLLIS MILLER
• WHISPERING. JIM WALKER
• THE LOVE OF CHRIST AND SPRING. STEVEN O. TAYLOR
• CONCERNING THE REVELATIONS OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. PATRICIA E. GUNTER
• JOSEPH. DALE BJORK

INDEX - VOLUME SIX, 1981. GARY P. GILLUM and DEPARTMENTS (in multiple issues but may not be in all issues)   READER’S FORUM, SCRIPTURAL COMMENTARY, PARADOXES AND PERPLEXITIES, ISSUES OF INTIMACY, LAW OF THE LAND, GIVE AND TAKE, OUTSIDE LOOKING IN, THE NOUMENONIST, J. GOLDEN NUGGETS  

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