The deadline for the Eugene England Memorial Personal Essay Contest is February 28th. To read essays from past winners, click here, and here.
Following are the official contest rules.
Sunstone invites writers to enter the 2009 Eugene England Memorial Personal Essay Contest, made possible by the Eugene and Charlotte England Education Fund. In the spirit of Gene’s [...]
By Joanna Briscoe
An earlier version of this essay was posted on the LDS group blog Feminist Mormon Housewives, 23 August 2007.
The Chinese have a saying: “An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break.”
My husband and [...]
Do you watch House M.D.? On the third season’s last DVD there’s a short sequence on how some of the show’s cast and crew got a little jazz band together – Hugh Laurie himself at the piano (and yes, he even plays “Minnie the Moocher” for all those Jeeves and Wooster fans out there).
At [...]
I came across this in Andre Gregory’s preface to the screenplay of one of my favorite films My Dinner With Andre.
A few weeks ago I had dinner with Twyla Tharp in her kitchen, and we were talking about the problems of the artist, or for that matter the individual, maturing in our society. Why do we [...]
There’s nothing in the world like a mother of four who has an M.A. in philosophy. Imagine being raised by the author of this article, Rebecca Buchert.
A few years ago I sat in a seminar on the American philosopher Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), listening to a discussion on Whitehead’s conception of God.
With some surprise, I [...]
Do you believe in Santa Claus? The Easter Bunny? The Tooth Fairy? How about the Writer Genius?
I believed in the Writer Genius for many years. He was this special, misunderstood person whose waters ran very deep. He was someone who had amazing novels and short stories swimming inside him like fish, just waiting to be [...]
By Rory Swensen
Christmas Season, 1989. I was a freshman at the University of Utah, my first year away from home. Like any college student, I was looking for extra holiday cash, and the Help Wanted ad for a shopping mall Santa seemed like just the thing.
Despite my 18-year-oldness, the manager was desperate to fill the [...]
Traveling Pants, whatever. The Purple Mesh Pinnies could trash ‘em.
The Sisterhood of the Purple Mesh Pinnies
By Dana Haight Cattani
The cure for anything is salt water:
sweat, tears, or the sea.
—Isak Dinesen
I like to get to the church gym a little early on Tuesday mornings to warm up, do some lay-ups, shoot a [...]
I believe in repentance
But it’s probably not what you’re thinking.
I actually dislike the word repentance. When I hear it, I think of those priesthood sessions of General Conference when I sat between my dad and my brother in the darkened chapel, knowing that I was full of adolescent sin. From an outside point of view, [...]
It’s come to all of us. That feeling that if people really knew what we were thinking, they’d throw eggs at us. Is it worth it to speak up in a church classroom?
Mythbuster
By Jeanne Turner
It wasn’t the silence of a pin drop; and it certainly wasn’t the gentle silence of one good sister handing a [...]
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