Posts Tagged ‘ diversity ’

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 [...]

I still contend I was not being insensitive — just naive. I arrived on the East Coast in 1973 — freshly out of grad school — having been selected for the one job at John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab I’d wanted more than any other I’d even considered applying for. After my church had canonized [...]

Today’s guest post is from Andrew Ainsworth.  I find it significant that Christ’s ultimate prayer in Gethsemane was for unity, and that unity is the ultimate goal of Eastern religions as well (they even take unity to the metaphysical level, viewing the ultimate unity as having our individual souls cease to be independent entities and [...]

First, Happy Independence Day (yay)! …so I was digging through classic Mormon Matters and found Clay’s discussion asking: how much does church activity has to do with being Mormon anyway? He opened with something interesting: Not so long ago, when I would hear about someone who didn’t go to church at all or have any interest in [...]