Reflections on the Wildness of the 2018 Sunstone Symposium


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Just recently, I attended the 2018 Sunstone Symposium. While having read a few Sunstone articles here and there, I had never attended a symposium before but was more than excited to go. I felt a lot of things throughout the weekend of Sunstone: amazement, hope, disappointment, and healing. But I came away having thoroughly enjoyed my time and wishing every member of the Church would come next year. I left with an interesting impression that serves as the impetus of this article — Sunstone and the LDS Church need each other. The Church needs open academic forums like Sunstone to thrive by arriving at new and novel ways of approaching the Gospel. But Sunstone needs the Church to serve as a foundation upon which to create space and enrichment. But before I get too far into this, it’s necessary to have some context into what Sunstone has been, is, and is trying to be. What is Sunstone? The motto of Sunstone is “Faith Seeking Understanding,” and the mission of Sunstone is to...

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