Life, ministry of Christ focus of new Sunstone Conference

“We believe that Eve was fully engaged in the Garden of Eden, in making choices,” she said. “Adam doesn’t want to be engaged. He is off somewhere doing something. But Eve is engaged. She reasons. She makes a rational choice. That is remarkable about our tradition.”

Other speakers at the one-day conference included Matthew Bowman, LDS scholar and author of “The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith,” who spoke about the Lord’s Supper, referred to among Latter-day Saints as the sacrament; Sunstone Institute instructor Michael Vinson, who spoke about the intersection of fairy tales and religious belief during the holiday season; a panel discussion of Christ’s messages to his historic and contemporary followers by Jacob Baker, Janice Allred, Mark Thomas and Michael J. Stevens; and another panel discussion focusing on how we can apply Christ’s teachings while living in a troubled world, featuring Michael Vinson, Elizabeth Pinborough, John Kesler and Dan McDonald.