Sunstone: Mormonism's 'bad boy'
Julia Duin, religion writer for the The Washington Times, tells the broader world about Sunstone magazine, "bad boy of the Mormon world."Sunstone's tongue-in-cheek essays range from blacks and the Mormon priesthood, Mormons and first-time sex (titled "When Virgins Collide"), reviews of a new film about Joseph Smith, and divorce, spouse abuse and child abuse in the church. I'd call it the Christianity Today of the Mormon world.Duin says when she met members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in Washington last year she admitted her understanding of the LDS theology came exclusively from Mormonism for Dummies and Sunstone magazine.
They looked horrified. "Sunstone is hardly representative of Mormon thought," one apostle told me.But an editor told her that some apostles actually subscribe, says Duin:
When they do, they get poetry, fiction, cartoons and news clips along with offbeat essays such as "Cross-Dressing and the LDS Church." . . .Feminist Mormon Housewives blog discusses Duin's article here.
Sunstone is a view into an alternate world where Mormon doctrines are taken seriously. Beliefs — such as a Mother God or the pre-existence of the human soul before birth in a "pre-mortal world" — are woven into the narrative as fact.
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Sunstone has about as much to do with the LDS Church and its culture as a Code Pink demonstration in Berkeley, California has to do with the U.S. Defense Department.
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