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SUNSTONE
MORMON EXPERIENCE, SCHOLARSHIP, ISSUES, & ART
OCTOBER 2011 Issue 164
FEATURES
16 D. Michael Quinn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE CULTURE OF VIOLENCE IN JOSEPH
SMITH’S MORMONISM
39 Noah Van Sciver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VAN SCIVER’S BOOK OF MORMON
42 Gary James Bergera . . . . . . . . . . . . THE MONITORING OF BYU FACULTY TITHING
PAYMENTS: 1957–1963
54 Levi S. Peterson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RETURN OF THE NATIVE: Fiction
66 Sara Burlingame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . YOUR OLD WOMEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS
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POETRY
2 Paul Swenson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GRAPHIC NOVEL
65 David Lawrence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BIRTHDAY PARTY
78 Anita Tanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAINTING
81 Lyn Lifshin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MY SISTER WANTS ME TO COME AND READ
THROUGH THIRTY YEARS OF DIARIES
COLUMNS
4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2011 UTAH SYMPOSIUM REPORT
6 Stephen Carter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FROM THE EDITOR: I Will Go; I Will Play
CORNUCOPIA
9 Alisa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BLOGWATCH: The Garment and the Veil
10 Michael Vinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SCRIPTURE NOTES: How Much Does Jesus
Care about Doctrinal Purity?
12 Curt Bench . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ADVENTURES OF A MORMON
BOOKSELLER: “Unscrupulous or Misguided
Adventurers”
13 James P. Harris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A PLACE FOR EVERY TRUTH: Understanding
Talmage
14 Aaron C. Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FROM THE PEWS: Leaderlore
15 Mark Jensen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FROM THE PEWS: My Top Eight Questions
70 Stephanie Buehler, Natasha Parker,
and John Dehlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ROUNDTABLE: Pornography, Masturbation, Sex,
and Marriage in Mormonism
76 D. Jeff Burton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRAVING THE BORDERLANDS . . . : Unusual
Tales from the Borderlands
79 Michael Farnworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE FAMILY FORUM: Discipline
82 Various Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IN MEMORIAM: Marion D. Hanks and
Chieko N. Okazaki
90 Chieko N. Okazaki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AN OLIVE LEAF: “May We Shoulder It
Together . . . ”
UPDATE
85 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . News media can’t get enough of the Mormons;
Responses to The Book of Mormon musical, Mountain
Meadows becomes national park, Mormons are as
strange as Muslims; People section . . .
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