Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host, John DeLinn. It's July 30th, 2025. And today we have a very special rebroadcast of a Mormon stories classic. And let me just give you a little background. So when I was at Brigham Young University back from 1987 to 1993, there was a really important

magazine called Sunstone Magazine that covered Mormon history, Mormon news, Mormon current events,

Mormon culture, Mormon art, etc. And it was for sure one of the most influential things in my life

at the time. It's where I learned about the Polly Stun scandal. It's where I learned about

the baseball baptisms. It's where I learned about the George P. Lee scandal. It's where I learned

about the September 6th. And, yeah, Sunstone Magazine at its peak had over 10,000 subscribers. And before the internet,

it was for sure the way that people found friends and community and support for a Mormon faith

crisis. So this year, August of 2025, Sunstone is celebrating its 50th anniversary. And so I'll be speaking at the

Sunstone Symposium in a couple days on, you know, reflecting on the Mormon internet over the

past 25 years, but also just, you know, this is a time for us to celebrate Sunstone and its importance and its history.

So back in 2007, I interviewed Albert Peck.

And Albert Peck was the editor of Sunstone Magazine from from 1986 to 2001.

Probably the longest, one of the longest serving editors of Sunstone Magazine,

if not the longest serving editor of Sunstone.

Sunstone was started by a couple people whose names you've probably never heard of,

Scott Kinney and someone else.

Then Peggy Fletcher Stack took Sunstone over and for several years,

ran both the magazine and the symposium until she left to go work for the Salt Lake Tribune.

And then Albert took it over and sort of 1986 to 2001 was, I would say, the most influential, the most successful, the most powerful time of Sunstone.

Sunstone was so powerful that Dalton H. Oaks issued a statement condemning it, but obviously

1993 was the year I graduated for BYU. It was also the year of the September 6th. So, Sunstone's

super important. There wouldn't be a Mormon stories without Sunstone.

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