[…] world. But one decade was different, infused by an unusual degree of organized activism against poverty and human want within the Mormon community. More than good neighbors, the Relief Society became a powerful relief […]
[…] on advantages of social and political change. Indonesia also requires missionaries capable of filling several different roles—proselyter, human developer, social changer, skill transferrer. Such persons are hard to find, and even harder to develop […]
[…] strident negativism of Sonia Johnson’s From Housewife to Heretic. Mormon Women Speak is above all a profoundly human document which deserves the attention of women and men alike. It should be required reading for […]
[…] a church—the devil bargains for the first living thing to cross the portal. He plans on a human soul, but he is tricked with an animal or barnyard fowl sent in ahead of the […]
[…] Church leader by this ideal. And I respond accordingly. I also measure my own response to fellow human beings by this same criterion. Even after many and obvious failures, I am still inspired by […]
[…] problem in this way: “On the one hand, religion stands in contrast to the whole substance of human life; it is the counterpart and the equivalent of life itself, aloof from its secular movements […]
[…] enactment enjoined the conference to work toward the end of injustice and any social conditions which limit human freedom. Objection to consideration failed and the resolution passed. A motion calling for an annual progress […]
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[…] “He builds nuclear weapons.” No one in Richland builds bombs. People here only teach school, fight fires, design containment vessels or waste dumps, weld piping, test the water or air for contamination, monitor storage […]
[…] El Salvador, arms sales to the world, intrusions into the Middle East for economic reasons, indifference to human rights, and the additional deployment of nuclear weapons to Western Europe. In addition, these same unscrupulous […]