Anyone going to Sunstone in London next week?

Be good to say hello to a few more apostates this side of the pond

I thought sunstone wasn’t for ex-mormons? But I’m confused, what is it about, is it for mormons? It doesn’t seem clear to me when I looked it up.

Me too!

I can't quite nail down if it's SUPER-ULTRA TBM's talking to each other about the super deep doctrines or if it's super liberal mormons who think deep about certain subjects or if it's people half way out of the cult because they dug deep.

My uncle used to do a bunch with them as mentioned in this tribute: https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/in-memoriam-paul-swenson/

But that side of the family is hyper-ultra-nutjob mormon. There is no nuttier ultra-TBM as my dad - paul's brother Roy. So I can't imagine Sunstone is anti-mormon in any way right?

I don't care to spend a ton of time actually reading any of their articles - I guess that would answer my questions though huh?

Levi,

Is yours the family that produced May Swenson, the poet, lo these many years ago? Perhaps your family has been touched by the muse.

Sunstone is for very liberal Mormons, NOMs, and ex-Mormons. Its content would almost certainly offend more conservative believers.

See the back issues in the archive at https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/magazine/.

Yep, good old Aunt May.

My dad was a dipshit, but he came from a very interesting family. Lots of variety, lots of "figuring out oneself" from May to my Aunt Michael who was born Grace Magda and ended up being Michael Raine. She was an actress. There's stories there!



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That's really cool, Levi.

May Swenson influenced a lot of other writers. She took that Mormon belief that all of nature had a numinous spark of the divine in it and used that intuition in her poetry even if she rejected (and was rejected by) Mormonism. Among her disciples are Terry Tempest Williams and Mary Oliver, the recently deceased poet. Aunt May left her mark on the world.

An interesting family indeed!

I would love to go to an event and meet other ex mormons here in the uk. However, this seems a bit too ‘John Dehlin’ for my taste, and generally too faith promoting for me as an atheist. I’m glad there is something for people to go to though.

Definatally not a Dehlin show!! There is no love lost between john and Sunstone!!!!

You will find mostly exmormons and a few liberals

> You will find mostly exmormons and a few liberals

I know what you mean, but this is an unintentionally amusing sentence. It suggests that most exmormons are not liberals, which may be true!

Have you been to one before and what was it like? (Curious).