{"id":211,"date":"2003-12-18T20:35:47","date_gmt":"2003-12-19T00:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=211"},"modified":"2009-01-16T17:27:20","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T21:27:20","slug":"should-i-subscribe-to-sunstone-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2003\/12\/should-i-subscribe-to-sunstone-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I subscribe to Sunstone again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunstoneonline.com\/\">Sunstone magazine<\/a> is different things to different people: a gadfly; a breath of fresh air; a gripefest; scholarship for nonscholars; a needed Mormon arts outlet; an enabler of apostate rantings.  For me, it was a first introduction to a broader range of Mormon thought than I was raised with.  Unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/archives\/000122.html\">Nate&#8217;s youth<\/a>, mine was devoid of discussions of hermeticism and hermeneutics over the dinner table.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSo Sunstone provided a welcomed stimulation for me.  I was a faithful reader for a couple of years, but then I lost interest.  I&#8217;m not sure if the content shifted slightly, or if my interests changed, but it ceased being as edifying or challenging to me as it was when I first discovered it.  I haven&#8217;t read it for a couple of years now.<\/p>\n<p>I am curious to know people&#8217;s feelings about the current state of Sunstone (apart from its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunstoneonline.com\/\">website<\/a>, which is uncontestibly ugly).  I seem to recall its new editor, Dan Wotherspoon, making a concerted effort to moderate the tone a bit and to encourage faithful scholars (read: BYU professors) to publish more often.  Are these shifts necessary to the vitality of Sunstone? And has Dan been successful?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunstone magazine is different things to different people: a gadfly; a breath of fresh air; a gripefest; scholarship for nonscholars; a needed Mormon arts outlet; an enabler of apostate rantings. For me, it was a first introduction to a broader range of Mormon thought than I was raised with. Unlike Nate&#8217;s youth, mine was devoid of discussions of hermeticism and hermeneutics over the dinner table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-politics","tag-popular-culture-and-media"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5712,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/5712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}