Comments on: Subscribe to Sunstone as part of your ward’s missionary effort?

By: Kevin Barney

Kevin Barney — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

This reminds me of the Grondahl cartoon where a man is introduced as the Elders Quorum’s “token intellectual.”

By: Aaron Brown

Aaron Brown — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I was asked to speak in Sacrament Meeting in my current ward for the first time about 3 1/2 years ago. I ended up forgetting about my talk until the morning of. I figured I would have to improvise, but I needed something to use as a catalyst for ideas, so I decided to snatch an issue of Sunstone lying on the desk as I left for Church. Fortunately, the issue had some really good Lowell Bennion excerpts on the back page, and I was able to use them throughout my talk. Saved by Sunstone!

Aaron B

P.S. Of course, if Margaret Toscano had been on the back page, it might not have gone so well…

By: Renee

Renee — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Everytime I read a post here that references Sunstone, it seems shrouded in a self-gratulatory “Aren’t we unique, superior, and wonderful for reading Sunstone” aura.

That may or may not be the case but it feels like the tone. Yes, Sunstone readers are a minority within the church. But it doesn’t make said readers any more or less intelligent than the rest of the members. It doesn’t mean there aren’t others who think long and hard about doctrine and simply draw different conclusions.

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Renee, I really don’t think that’s a fair assessment. There is a difference between recognizing the humor of being different in a fairly homogenous group and bragging.

Aaron, Did you hide the Sunstone behind another book, or just come out of the closet right on the stand? :o)

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Of course Karen doesn’t think that is a fair assessment. Though, really I don’t either. I occasionally feel that way about comments related to sunstone, but I also feel that way about comments related to people who read blogs.

And what about dialogue? Are dialogue readers just out in the cold?

By: Kristine

Kristine — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Renee, I was really kidding, as I hope my faux-testimonial final sentence made clear. My point (lame though it may have been) was only that it was very odd to have reading Sunstone be seen as a positive, since it’s often a somewhat suspect activity. I was aiming for something like self-mocking, rather than self-congratulatory–apparently I missed. That internet tone thing again.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Renee: you’re to far off the mark.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Let me correct that.

Renee: you’re *not* too far off the mark.

Kristine: it sounded like Renee’s comment had a more general application and was not directed at you personally.

Am I wrong?

By: Adam Greenwood

Adam Greenwood — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Me, I’m not a big Sunstone fan, and naturally I don’t admire people who are proud of reading Suntone. But Kristine was just being funny. Or rather, God was being funny and Kristine was part of the joke.

By: Steve Evans

Steve Evans — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

“Of course Karen doesn’t think that is a fair assessment.”

Hey, Karen may be a Streisand-loving, raving liberal peacenik, but there’s no reason to label her as some sort of Sunstone-reader…