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‘Hey Obama, Don’t Deport My Momma!’: A Photo Essay
A children’s rendition of Springsteen’s ‘Born in the USA’ filled the air of Lafayette Square in Washington D.C. on Wednesday afternoon as U.S.
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‘Hey Obama, Don’t Deport My Momma!’: A Photo Essay
World-Renowned Peacemaker Art Gish Dies
Art and Peggy Gish are career peace, civil rights, and human rights activists who embody the motto of their primary affiliation, Christian Peacemaker Teams: “Getting in the way.” Art died yesterday morning in a tractor accident on the organic farm where…
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World-Renowned Peacemaker Art Gish Dies
Redefining Morality in the Public Sphere
This past week more than 10,000 scientists launched the Vienna Declaration , a call for a major change in handling drug crimes and treatment. Noting that the global war on drugs has failed, the group wants governments to use scientific methods to determine policy instead of, as one health professional puts it, “a moralistic approach.” I do see the point when these scientists claim that the war on drugs has failed. If anything, the problem has grown worse
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Redefining Morality in the Public Sphere
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Arizona Immigration Law. A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona’s immigration enforcement law from going into effect, a ruling that at least temporarily squashed a state policy that had inflamed the national debate over immigration
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Happy Pioneer Day!
This little reflection was originally posted on the blog Law, Religion, and Ethics — most of whose readers, if any, are presumably not LDS or residents of Utah. Pioneer Day, in case you didn’t know, is today, July 24; it commemorates the day in 1847 (give or take a day or two) when Brigham Young declared “This is the place,” and the Mormon pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley
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Sunday School Lesson 30: 2 Chronicles 29-30; 32; 34
As the Old Testament tells the history, Hezekiah was the 13 th king after David and the 11 th king of Judah: David, then Solomon, then Rehoboam (who was king at the time of the split between Judah and Israel, and became the first king of Judah), then Abijah, then Asa, then Jehoshaphat, Joram, Ahaziah, Joash, Amaziah, Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and finally Hezekiah. Hezekiah reigned from 715 B.C. to 687 B.C
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Sunday School Lesson 30: 2 Chronicles 29-30; 32; 34
Just because they can’t see you doesn’t mean you’re not there
The call for papers for the Third Biannual Faith and Knowledge Conference for LDS Graduate Students in Religion contains a sentence that is, I think, wrong in three different ways.
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Just because they can’t see you doesn’t mean you’re not there
Light Your Corner of the World
Light Your Corner of the World TODAY’S VERSE “You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.” Matthew 5:14 TODAY’S THOUGHT I love synergy. That is the result of different entities working together to create a bigger response than they could by themselves
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Light Your Corner of the World
Interreligious — not Irreligious — Diplomacy
Before I sign off – or am run out of town – I might serve you well by offering a perspective on an extremely interesting conference held last weekend on the USC campus in LA. The conference was titled “Mormon Engagement with World Religions,” and was organized by Randall Paul, founder of the Foundation for Interreligious Diplomacy, and by Brian Birch, head of the LDS chapter of same Foundation
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Interreligious — not Irreligious — Diplomacy
Drone Attacks Increase Under Obama Administration
Last night I googled the words “drone attacks Obama” to verify if President Obama has indeed increased unmanned aerial drone attacks in the Afghanistan/Pakistan border region. Sure enough, not only has the president significantly increased these extrajudicial killings that also happen…
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Drone Attacks Increase Under Obama Administration
Voices from the Gulf: Our Way of Life, Forever Altered
Editor’s note: This week, God’s Politics is launching “Voices From the Gulf” — a series of posts from people experiencing first-hand the devastating effects of the worst oil spill in American history . Check back often for more stories each week. Living…
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Voices from the Gulf: Our Way of Life, Forever Altered
Bloody Sunday and Telling the Truth
For 14 people in my homeland, northern Ireland — a place whose divisions are so fully on the surface that we still can’t agree what to call it (the reason I spell it with a small ‘n’) — the clocks…
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The Revolution of the Heart Begins in Community
For nearly two months oil has gushed into the Gulf because of BP’s government-endorsed “error.” The environmental destruction has reached epic proportions. And once again, it is the poor and the marginalized — those unheard or not welcome in the…
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The Revolution of the Heart Begins in Community
Immigration, Children, and the Way of Jesus
Last month, an encounter between Michelle Obama and a Latina child in a suburban Maryland school brought into sharp relief one of the most pressing issues surrounding U.S. immigration policy: the effect that the current broken system is having — and…
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Immigration, Children, and the Way of Jesus
Who Can Throw the First Stone at BP? None of Us.
I don’t know the personal, spiritual ground of those who created the situation that has become the BP oil spill disaster . I know, however, that I am in no position to “throw the first stone.” My style and standard of…
Faith & Justice Networks: New Wineskins for Justice
Over the past decade, discussions about justice have reached a tipping point in the evangelical world. Everywhere I go, people are talking about justice: from missionary gatherings to church planting conferences, justice is hot. Of course the prophet Micah, in his…
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Faith & Justice Networks: New Wineskins for Justice
Taking it to the Third Order
Since my “second-order” questioning elicited little discussion (albeit 200+ responses), let me try to “take it up a notch,” as George Constanza might say (forgive the erudite cultural references). Herewith, the “third order,” the Meta-Meta Meditation on the problem of politics/morality/religion. (I gather my guest privileges will expire before we have a chance to go to the Fourth Order, which would start to make me a little nervous anyway, since I don’t know what the Fifth Order might be.) Anyway, here, from my forthcoming blockbuster, The Responsibility of Reason *, is a fragment of that third-order reflection. (Is it relevant to LDS concerns? Only, I suppose, if thinking about the relation between reason and revelation is relevant to us as LDS. You help me judge): Reason’s responsibility is a problem because the rule of simple reason is as impossible as it is inevitable. It is impossible because a clear and distinct grasp of the meaning and goodness of human existence eludes our natural powers, if only because we human beings are naturally aware of being part of some larger whole that exceeds our grasp. Thus an answer to the practical question of human purpose cannot be simply separated from the theoretical question of the way things are, of the nature or Being of what is highest or somehow ultimate.
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Taking it to the Third Order
Late-night Doctrinal Discussions
I’m in the final semester of an MBA program at Oregon’s Willamette University. I took a job in California a couple months ago. That means I’ve got a killer commute to class.
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Late-night Doctrinal Discussions
Rob Durst is the Best!
Our AV man, Rob Durst, is the best! Rob stays ahead of the cutting edge of technology. When Jeanie and I walked into the Media Center for our Mac training this morning we were instantly blown away. I wish you could have walked in with us
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Rob Durst is the Best!
A Peek Inside the Temple
On May 28, a press conference was held in the South Visitors’ Center on Temple Square to unveil a new public exhibit: a cut-away scale model showing the interior architecture and layout of the Salt Lake Temple. The LDS Newsroom and Deseret News posted detailed stories with additional images; in this post I just want to toss out a few ideas for discussion. First, why didn’t someone think of this thirty years ago?
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A Peek Inside the Temple