Sunstone Podcast

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Episodes: 171

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For more than 45 years, Sunstone has been exploring Mormonism in all its expressions through our publications and symposiums. The Sunstone Podcast gathers the best of these explorations, including compelling sessions from our worldwide symposiums as well as interviews, book reviews, and deep dives into all things Mormon. Hosted by Stephen Carter.

Episode Date
E172: What Really Happened When Phineas Got His New Wives?
Apr 09, 2024
E171: The Movie that Turns Easter on its Head.
Mar 27, 2024
E170: The Weird New Atonement Theory You Can’t Talk About in Sunday School.
Mar 04, 2024
E169: Where Do We Go From Here? Part II
Feb 28, 2024
E168: Where Do We Go From Here? Part I.
Feb 25, 2024
E167: Why I Stay.
Jan 29, 2024
E166: What Makes the True Believer Tick?
Jan 08, 2024
E165: His Eye Is on the Sparrow.
Dec 11, 2023
E164: In the Mountains, No One Can Hear You Swear.
Dec 05, 2023
E163: Nephite Treasure in the Mountains: Utah County’s “Dream Mine.”
Nov 22, 2023
E162: In the Garden God Hath Planted: Remembering Lavina Fielding Anderson
Nov 13, 2023
E161: How the Barbie Movie Rewrites the Faith Crisis Script.
Oct 30, 2023
E160: The Plan of Saw-vation: What the Movie “Saw” Reveals about What Truly Terrifies Mormons.
Oct 18, 2023
E159: Why the Heck Don’t Mormons Swear?
Oct 09, 2023
E158: How to Listen to a Man: And Other Things I Learned from “Fascinating Womanhood.”
Oct 02, 2023
E157: The Excommunication of Charles William Kingston.
Sep 19, 2023
E156: Should We Save the Provo Temple?
Sep 12, 2023
E155: Are There Jokes in Heaven? Are They Better than General Conference Jokes?
Sep 01, 2023
E154: Passive-aggression Among the Latter-day Saints
Aug 23, 2023
E153: Jesus Christ (Almost) Visits the Mormons.
Aug 16, 2023
E152: Saving the Good Ship Zion by Leaving It.
Jul 10, 2023
E151: Jesus, John Wayne, and Captain Moroni: How Mormonism Became Evangelical.
Jul 03, 2023
E150: A Pride Month Sermon.
Jun 26, 2023
E149: How the Proclamation on the Family Could Include Transgender People.
Jun 15, 2023
E148: What Would Socrates Think of LGBTQ Issues if He Were Mormon?
Jun 09, 2023
E147: Should Mormons Become a Part of Cancel Culture?
May 22, 2023
E146: The Curious Case of James Madison Monroe.
May 09, 2023
E145: Are Mormon Rituals Weird Enough?
Apr 28, 2023
E144: Telling Your Life Story After Religion.
Apr 17, 2023
E143: Could the Book of Abraham Save Us from AI?
Mar 31, 2023
E142: How Testosterone Changed Mormon History
Mar 07, 2023
E141: “You Will Not Talk about that Woman in My Church”: How We Wrote “Mormon Enigma.”
Feb 20, 2023
E140: Hallucinogens in Early Mormon History
Feb 08, 2023
E139: The Jungian Shadow and Mormon History
Jan 23, 2023
E138: The Woman Who Brought Satanism to Utah
Dec 28, 2022
E137: Affinity Fraud in Mormonism
Dec 06, 2022
E136: From the Book of Mormon to a Box of Tissues: How Mormon Masculinity Is Changing
Nov 14, 2022
E135: How Artificial Intelligence Changes How We Think About the Plan of Salvation.
Nov 07, 2022
E134: AIDS in 1980s Utah.
Nov 04, 2022
E133: More Than One Way to Polyg.
Oct 25, 2022
E132: Don’t Forgive the Way God Forgives
Oct 07, 2022
E131: Why Most Ex-Mormons Leave Religion Completely.
Oct 07, 2022
E130: Own Your Religion
Sep 21, 2022
E129: Disconcerting Soup for the Soul
Sep 15, 2022
E128: More Than One Way to Family
Sep 15, 2022
E127: The Polygamy Explosion in Early Utah
Aug 25, 2022
E126: Will You Have a Personality in Heaven?
Aug 16, 2022
E125: A Native View of Pioneer Day.
Jul 21, 2022
E124: Post-Mormonism and the Witchy Worldview.
Jun 21, 2022
E123: Why Latter-day Saints Should Embrace “Under the Banner of Heaven”.
Jun 13, 2022
E122: Bug or Feature? Historical Inaccuracies in Under the Banner of Heaven.
Jun 06, 2022
E121: Mormon Fundamentalists Talk about Under the Banner of Heaven.
Jun 03, 2022
E120: Under the Banner of Heaven with Actors Tyner Rushing and Scott Michael Campbell
May 17, 2022
E119: An Ex-Mormon Temple Worker Tours the Washington DC Temple
May 13, 2022
E118: The LDS Proselytizing Mission as Hazing.
May 04, 2022
E117: Does Postmodernism Help or Hinder Mormonism?
Apr 20, 2022
E116: The Oozing Videotape: And Other Dead Wrong Gospel Metaphors
Apr 12, 2022
E115: How God Became So Human
Mar 31, 2022
E114: The Temple and the Mall: How the LDS Church Redefined the Sacred and the Secular
Mar 28, 2022
E113: The Fake Empathizer
Mar 08, 2022
E112: Reframing the Grief in a Mixed-faith Marriage
Feb 28, 2022
E111: Where the Heck is Hell in the Bible?
Feb 15, 2022
E110: The LDS Church and the Bear River Massacre
Feb 08, 2022
E109: How Hearts Are Changed: Learning to Affirm LGBTQ Journeys
Jan 31, 2022
E108: Your Faith Journey’s Hidden Agenda
Jan 25, 2022
E107: What Don’t the Prophets Say Anymore?: Analyzing General Conference.
Jan 13, 2022
E106: In Search of a Larger God
Jan 06, 2022
E105: Mormons and Native Americans: Myths vs. Realities
Dec 14, 2021
E104: The Real Reason the LDS Church Doesn’t Apologize
Dec 01, 2021
E103: A Brief History of LDS Church LGBTQIA+ Teachings.
Nov 15, 2021
E102: Three Lesson I’ve Learned Giving My Kids a Foundation After My Faith Transition.
Nov 11, 2021
E101: The Sexual “What-if” Syndrome
Nov 02, 2021
E100: Joining a Cult Is Fun to Do, Fun to Do, to Do to Do
Oct 25, 2021
E99: Queer Polygamy: A Conversation with Taylor Petrey and Blaire Ostler
Oct 12, 2021
E98: Joseph Smith Led Me Out of the Closet
Oct 05, 2021
E97: The Impact of Religious Rigidity on Disaffiliated Young Adults
Sep 21, 2021
E96: Mad Bear at Temple Square: Unprecedented Protest
Sep 14, 2021
E95: Queer Mormon Theology: Not an Oxymoron
Sep 01, 2021
E94: Do You Doubt Deeply Enough?
Aug 17, 2021
E93: The Connection Between the Descendants of Confederate Veterans, Mormons … and the Rest of Us
Jun 01, 2021
E92: Viva la Renovation!: A Response to Patrick Q. Mason’s Book “Restoration: God’s Call to the 21st Century”
May 04, 2021
E91: “Murder Among the Mormons:” A Conversation with Shannon Flynn
Apr 14, 2021
E90: Sealed: An Unexpected Journey into the Heart of Grace: A Conversation with Katie Langston
Mar 29, 2021
E89: Murder Among the Mormons: We Were There
Mar 23, 2021
E88: “Murder Among the Mormons”: A Conversation with the Directors
Mar 16, 2021
E87: It’s Complicated: A Conversation with Jane Christie
Mar 01, 2021
E86: This Is Your Brain on Polygamy
Feb 16, 2021
E85: The Real Way to Bring People Back into Mormonism: A Conversation with Peter Bleakley
Feb 08, 2021
E84: Politics is Religion Now: And That’s Terrible News for Mormonism
Jan 18, 2021
E83: A Good Year to Die?: An Oddly Mormon Approach to Progression
Jan 04, 2021
E82: Christmas Is a Mass Psychedelic Trip: And We Really Need It This Year
Dec 21, 2020
E81: We Get Gratitude All Wrong and #Givethanks Proved It
Dec 08, 2020
E80: Sunday School Spy: How COVID-19 Helped Me Infiltrate My Ward
Nov 22, 2020
E78: October 2020 Conference Analysis
Oct 13, 2020
E77: Faith Journeys in Britain
Oct 01, 2020
E76: Jesus as a Liberal
Sep 22, 2020
Episode 75: Jesus as a Conservative
Sep 15, 2020
Episode 74: The American Indian/Lamanite Disconnect
Sep 08, 2020
Episode 73: Bathing with God: An Interview with Glenn Ostlund
Aug 24, 2020
Episode 72: Mormonism and White Supremacy in Education
Aug 12, 2020
Episode 71: John’s Book of Mormon Project: An Introduction
Aug 05, 2020
E70: What Happens When White People Talk With White People About Race?
Jul 07, 2020
E69: A Technological Resurrection
Jul 01, 2020
E68: Black and Queer in the LDS Church: A Conversation with LeiLoni Lee
Jun 22, 2020
E67: Will Church Ever Be Church Again?
Jun 16, 2020
E66: Mormonism and White Supremacy
Jun 08, 2020
E65: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism: A Conversation with Taylor Petrey
Jun 03, 2020
E64: Writing Mormon History: Historians and Their Books
May 19, 2020
E63: How Mormons Shoot Themselves in the Foot on the Internet
May 11, 2020
E62: What Would a Prophetic People Do During a Pandemic?
Apr 27, 2020
E61: Mormonism after COVID-19
Apr 20, 2020
E60: April 2020 General Conference Analysis
Apr 08, 2020
E59: Turning Tragedy into Triumph: And Other Terrible Ideas
Apr 03, 2020
E58: Trapped in Babel: Healing the Religious and Political Divide
Mar 26, 2020
E57: The Weird But Obvious Reasons Why the LDS Church Doesn’t Want You to Stream Sacrament Meeting
Mar 18, 2020
E56: Legalizing Polygamy: An Article by George R. Compton
Mar 10, 2020
E55: A Tale of Two Republicans: How Mitt Romney and Mike Lee Are Two Sides of the LDS Coin
Mar 01, 2020
E54: Mormon Philosophy Simplified: A Conversation with Brittney Hartley
Feb 24, 2020
E53: Tight Like Unto a Dish?: A Conversation with MormonLeaks
Feb 17, 2020
E52: The Ex-Mormon Overcorrection
Feb 10, 2020
E51: Returning to Church Without Returning to Church
Feb 03, 2020
E50: Religion Is a Technology, and Jesus Was a Saboteur
Jan 27, 2020
E49: What Was In the Lost 116 Pages?: An Interview with Don Bradley
Jan 20, 2020
E48: LGBTQ Equality Would Break LDS Doctrine: A Call for Responses
Jan 13, 2020
E47: What Really Happened to the Lost 116 Pages?: An Interview with Don Bradley
Jan 05, 2020
E46: John’s Top-Ten List
Dec 30, 2019
E45: What Would Jesus Do with $100 Billion?
Dec 23, 2019
E44: A Christmas Carol Conspiracy Theory
Dec 16, 2019
E43: The Sunstone Santa Special
Dec 11, 2019
E42: Ministering to Those Who Question: A Conversation with David B. Ostler
Nov 25, 2019
E41: Your Faith Crisis Isn’t Actually Yours
Nov 19, 2019
E40: Mormon Iconoclast Part 4: Eric Samuelsen’s “Borderlands”
Nov 11, 2019
E39: Mormon Iconoclast Part 3: Eric Samuelsen’s ‘Peculiarities’
Nov 04, 2019
E38: How ‘Saw’ Is the Ultimate Mormon Horror Film
Oct 28, 2019
E37: Mormon Iconoclast Part 2: Eric Samuelsen’s “The Plan”
Oct 21, 2019
E36: Mormon Iconoclast: An Introduction to Eric Samuelsen
Oct 14, 2019
E35: Wayne Booth: “The Rhetorician Who Can Change Everything”
Oct 06, 2019
E34: Expanding the Soul … and the Podcast: A Conversation with Jaxon Washburn
Sep 29, 2019
E33: A History of the Faith Crisis: A Conversation with Jeff Burton
Sep 16, 2019
E32: Too Interesting to Leave: A Conversation with Rick Bennett
Sep 02, 2019
E31: Early Mormonism and the Masonic Worldview
Aug 26, 2019
E30: An Introduction to Mormon Transhumanism: A Conversation with Blaire Ostler
Aug 18, 2019
E29: Revising Your Sexual Story: A Conversation with Natasha Helfer Parker
Aug 12, 2019
E28: Overcoming the Anger: How to Let Go and Move On
Aug 07, 2019
E27: Farewell to Manti: A Visit to the Last Pageant
Jun 30, 2019
E26: A Post- Mormon Sex Primer with Mary Fisher
Jun 23, 2019
E25: Not Church
Jun 16, 2019
E24: Life Outside the Closet: A Talk with the Latter-day Lesbians
Jun 09, 2019
E23: Striking a Balance: Finding the Podcast’s Voice
Jun 02, 2019
E22: You’re Not Alone: A Conversation with the Mama Dragons
May 26, 2019
E21: The Art of a Skillful Faith Transition: A Conversation with Stephen Carter
May 19, 2019
E20: The Case for Therapy: A Discussion with Jenny Marrow
May 13, 2019
E18: Making Connections Between Mormon Communities
May 01, 2019
E17: Mormons Building Bridges
Apr 21, 2019
E16: From Outrage to Silence: A Conversation with Gina Colvin
Apr 14, 2019
E15: Building Community after Mormonism
Apr 07, 2019
E14: The Unknown McKay: An Interview with Harvard Heath
Mar 31, 2019
E13: Marriage on a Tightrope
Mar 24, 2019
E12: Post-Mormon Advice
Mar 17, 2019
E11: Changes in Mormonism
Mar 11, 2019
E10: Mormon Theology is Queer: An Interview with Blaire Ostler
Mar 03, 2019
Episode 0: John Larsen
Jan 01, 1970
Episode 1: Sam Young
Jan 01, 1970
Episode 2: Jeffrey S. Anderson
Jan 01, 1970
Episode 3: Cristina Rosetti and Lindsay Hansen Park
Jan 01, 1970
Episode 4: Sunstone Firesides
Jan 01, 1970
Episode 5: Ponzi Schemes and Mormonism
Jan 01, 1970
Episode 6: An Interview with the Truth and Transparency Foundation
Jan 01, 1970
Episode 7: You Can Leave the Church, But Can’t Leave It Alone?
Jan 01, 1970
Episode 8: February 2019 Mormon News Round-Up
Jan 01, 1970
Episode 9: Sunstone History Podcast
Jan 01, 1970