by Azul Uribe | Oct 10, 2016 | Featured, Humanity, Immigration, Politics |
Y’all, I feel for you, for this dumpster fire of an election year y’all are having, I really do. But I’m sort of laughing too. Mexico and the U.S. are inexplicably linked. We will always be bound together, in one way or another; land stolen in the...
by Jon Barker | Aug 19, 2016 | Church, Compassion, Family, Featured, Goodness, Immigration, LDS Missions, Mormonism, Politics, Radical Compassion |
I can’t see anything about immigration or refugees in the news without thinking of my friends and my family. People I consider my blood. Some people are my blood. My wife is Guatemalan. My daughter is half Guatemalan. My two oldest brothers are also half...
by Miguel Barker-Valdez | Aug 16, 2016 | Church History, Featured, Immigration, LDS Church History |
Most of you are familiar with Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim proposal from December 2015: “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going...
by Azul Uribe | Jun 13, 2016 | Church, decisions, Family, Featured, Homosexuality, Immigration, LGBTQ, Racism, Radical Compassion |
I have avoided social media for most of my day. Originally I had written an entire post about the Church’s push for legislation here in Mexico- Enrique Peña Nieto decided to make gay marriage legal in the entire country. The way it currently works here (in Mexico) is...
by Jared Mooney | May 5, 2016 | Apostasy, Church, Compassion, Corporate Church, decisions, Disagreement, exclusion-policy, Faith Crisis, faith crisis, Featured, Fellowship, General authorities, Humanity, Immigration, Leadership, Mormonism, Policy |
I had a discussion with a friend and his wife a couple weeks ago about their situation living with his parents. My friend and his wife were both raised as Mormons, but in recent years have both suffered a faith crisis that eventually took them out of the church. His...
by Laurel Sandberg-Armstrong | Apr 7, 2016 | Church, Compassion, Featured, Humanity, Immigration, Relief Society, Service |
In the last few days, I’ve seen a huge surge in members of the Church wanting to reach out to refugees in any way they can. I’m thrilled about this, as I’ve been following the middle-eastern refugee crisis since last year, and I would love some...
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