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The Song of Rosanna’s Survivor Story
I came to be friends with Rosanna through my wife’s work. Becca is the founding director of Magdalene, a two-year residential program for women with a history of prostitution and drug addiction. She also founded Thistle Farms, a bath and…
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The Song of Rosanna’s Survivor Story
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Oil Spill. Engineers have succeeded in stopping the flow of oil and gas into the Gulf of Mexico from a gushing BP well, the federal government’s top oil spill commander, U.S. Coast Guard Adm.
Drugs, Guns, and Immigration: An Unholy Trinity of Failed Policy
The reports out of Juarez, Mexico, are depressing, doubly so for me. I grew up in the border area of El Paso with many relatives on both sides of the border. My memories of going to the mercado, of watching the…
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Climate of Change: Global Grassroots Environmental Success Stories
In Climate of Change , director Brian Hill tells the story of how ordinary people from around the world are taking action steps to save the environment.
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Climate of Change: Global Grassroots Environmental Success Stories
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North Korea. North Korea announced Tuesday that it is severing all relations with South Korea, heightening the risk of armed conflict and creating perhaps the most serious crisis on the Korean Peninsula in more than two decades. Troops to the Border.
A Reading of President Packer’s “Presiding in the Home”
During a great discussion of our most recent general conference, one very bright young woman in my class sincerely asked, “President Packer said that ‘the father presides at the table’ – and I just want to know what that means.” A very lively discussion ensued. The women in the classroom sat very still, intently listening, but unwillingly to chime in as a barrage of answers were given by the men – ranging from the mildly to the wildly sexist
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A Reading of President Packer’s “Presiding in the Home”
Palestine’s True Leaders
For many years, Palestinians have engaged in nonviolent actions aimed at resisting the Israeli military occupation and its violent and humiliating policies aimed at suppressing the will of the Palestinians in seeking to achieve their legitimate aspirations. Villages and communities have…
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Gulf Oil Spill: Watching a Disaster Unfold with a Log in My Eye
Watching a disaster unfold on the news is always heartbreaking, but when it occurs in your hometown and you are far away, it can be debilitating. I grew up minutes from the Gulf beaches in Florida, and reading about and…
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Gulf Oil Spill: Watching a Disaster Unfold with a Log in My Eye
Personality Tests and “Muchness”
A friend of mine came to visit a couple weeks ago, and he had me take the “Color Code” personality test. Perhaps you’re familiar with it. It divides people into red (control-oriented), blue (intimacy-oriented), yellow (socially-oriented), and white (peace-oriented) personalities
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Personality Tests and “Muchness”
White Flag Warriors at the Border: Recognizing Humanity on All Sides of the Immigration Debate
About a year ago, when we were writing our song “White Flag Warrior”, my friend (and fellow frontman) Stephen and I had quite a conversation. We talked about Leonard Cohen’s song “Story of Isaac” and about Kierkegaard’s multiple interpretations of…
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A Neighborhood View of Consumer Financial Protection
As someone who lives in Cleveland – which in some years is identified as the poorest city in the U.S. – I have seen how banks, mortgage companies, payday lenders, and other financial institutions have been grinding into the dirt…
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A Neighborhood View of Consumer Financial Protection
Dr. Dorothy Irene Height: A Servant Leader Among Us
In an age when many leaders desperately seek their 15 minutes of YouTube fame, Dr. Dorothy Irene Height was celebrated by presidents and everyday citizens alike for being the rarest of all humans — a servant leader
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A Mormon Image: Generations
In honor of my grandfather, who passed away yesterday at the tender age of 93, I thought I’d post a few photographs. He was a kind and generous man who was always upright in his dealings and loved to surround himself with family. He was not a member of the Church (my mother is a convert), but he led a moderate and principled life that will continue to serve as an example to me. His memory will be carried by his children and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. This last fall, my wife and I were lucky enough to sneak away to Switzerland with our son and spend some time with him while he was still in good health. Here we are visiting the grave of my late grandmother–my grandfather’s wife of 65 years. by Marc Bohn ___ These pictures are part of our ongoing series highlighting Mormon images.
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A Mormon Image: Generations
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Non-proliferation Conference. Shattering a taboo dating from the Cold War, the Obama administration revealed Monday the size of the American nuclear arsenal — 5,113 weapons — as it embarked on a campaign for tougher measures against countries with hidden nuclear programs.
We are Exiles Who Follow an Alien, Undocumented, Migrant Messiah
There’s a scene in the film Food, Inc. that reveals the hypocrisy at the heart of U.S
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We are Exiles Who Follow an Alien, Undocumented, Migrant Messiah
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NYC Failed Car Bomb. The car bomb discovered in Times Square would probably have killed or maimed many people, police officials and federal investigators said Sunday as they began assembling evidence collected from the homemade device, video surveillance footage, and the vehicle itself.
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Taking Happiness at Face Value
“…wickedness never was happiness.” — Alma 41:10 I’ve only ever heard this phrase from the scriptures used as an encouragement toward righteousness — “if you are wicked, then you won’t be happy, so be righteous!” But reducing the scripture to a causal relationship like “if ( wicked ) then { not happy }” necessarily implies the contrapositive: “if ( happy ) then { not wicked }”. Both of these readings reduce the rich context of the passage to a logical proposition, and these sorts of shallow reductions don’t often translate well to the complexity of real life. Even so, I think it’s worth considering the passage from both directions
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Taking Happiness at Face Value
Requesting Priesthood Lines of Authority
In the course of an interesting email exchange today, I learned that a good friend and I had had similar experiences in trying to track down our priesthood lines of authority. After being ordained Elders, we both asked our fathers if they had copies of their lines of authority, both said they thought they did somewhere, but both ultimately could never come up with them
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Requesting Priesthood Lines of Authority
Why Flobots Is Doing a May Day Concert in Arizona (+Free Download)
I am a rapper. I rap in a band called Flobots
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Slavery is Alive and Well … For Now
It’d be nice if enacting a law would solve the problem, wouldn’t it? Sadly, despite slavery being declared illegal in nearly every country in the world, it persists—a blight and cancer on our communities, our consciences, and our common humanity.
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Slavery is Alive and Well … For Now