Posts Tagged ‘ community ’

The Ten Commandments was one of the first Biblical epics to command a mass audience, and so my parents took me into downtown Detroit as a boy to be sure I saw it in its full widescreen glory in one of the few theaters capable of so screening it. The movie was well worth the [...]

A friend of mine found this note on her car this week with a Starbucks gift card:  ”To honor the 26 people who died in Newtown, CT, my family is doing 26 acts of kindness. You are number 3. We hope you have a wonderful holiday season. God bless!” What a great way to take [...]

We sometimes see other peoples’ kids in a different light than their parents do.  We hear rumours through our own kids or our callings.  They act differently when their parents aren’t around.  They post things on Facebook that we see through our kids’ Facebook. Discuss.

“If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” The implications of this little dust-up over a few little words is the crux of this election’s economic debate and perhaps the key differentiator between the two candidates.  Does it take a village to be successful or not?  How do [...]

We believe in diversity.  Accepting others is virtuous.  God is no respecter of persons.  After all, diversity creates more equality for everyone, and communities with a varied background certainly have advantages over homogenous provincial groups with unquestioned assumptions. Maybe not. From a 2007 article about the pitfalls of increased diversity through social progressivism: Harvard political [...]

Joseph Smith said, “Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism.” A few years ago, Mark Brown inaugurated (kinda) his posting stint at By Common Consent with an article that elaborated on such. He wrote about a deeply structural difference to the way Mormons go about their church experience than do other religious [...]