Скачать или смотреть The Rise and Fall of Sunstone Magazine - Elbert Peck (re-broadcast) | Ep. 2045

Join us today as we resurface another classic Mormon Stories episode! Originally filmed in 2007, this interview is with Elbert Peck who was the editor of Sunstone Magazine from 1986-2001.

Topics will include:
-His early years in Washington D.C.
-His time at BYU with the Seventh East Press publication
-What led to him taking over Sunstone Magazine
-Interactions with other key Sunstone members
-Events leading up to the September Six excommunications of 1993
-The decline of Sunstone publications

We hope you enjoy the re-broadcast of this important interview, and look forward to seeing all of you at the 50th anniversary Sunstone Symposium this weekend! (July 31st - August 1st)

Show notes can be found on the Mormon Stories blog here: https://www.mormonstories.org/the-ris...

Timecodes:
00:00:00 John’s Introduction
00:04:49 The rebroadcast begins
00:07:31 His mission experience
00:10:05 The Seventh East Press
00:12:25 He came to Sunstone and worked there full-time
00:20:43 Sunstone was hugely in debt at the beginning
00:24:39 He wanted to bring in more faithful voices into the magazine
00:28:44 What role was he hoping Sunstone would play in Mormonism?
00:30:58 They published George P. Lee’s criticism of the church
00:38:55 Other landmark issues that they published?
00:42:04 Elder Oaks gave a talk on “alternate voices”
00:47:20 They started the symposiums with prayer and he was criticized for it
00:47:58 Carol Lynn Pearson stories
00:50:47 Eugene England interactions
01:02:34 Why was 1993 crucial for Sunstone?
01:05:25 Conversations between Sunstone leaders and General Authorities
01:10:45 Church leaders got mad at the Sunstone magazines
01:14:41 Elbert was called in by his Stake President for publishing an article on the temple changes
01:20:31 The church framing Sunstone as a cancer “This cancer is growing”
01:27:34 John pushes back against Elbert Peck and what an open forum means
01:32:20 Daniel meets with Elder Oaks
01:34:01 The leaders believed that Sunstone was trying to change the church
01:39:06 Details of the September Six in 1993
01:47:02 Sunstone’s finances were in the toilet at this point
01:53:00 How does he feel about his contributions?
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