@RosenJeffrey Thank you for inviting the president of our Church to speak in the National Cathedral today. And such a great summary of President Oaks's talk you gave today at the beginning of the round table discussion!
President Dallin H. Oaks delivered a landmark address on religious freedom Wednesday at Washington National Cathedral, pointing to the United States Constitution as a key tool for peacemaking and finding common ground.
“The Constitution compels a divided people to build coalitions to allow them to act together,” said President @OaksDallinH, who has spent seven decades studying the Constitution as a scholar, jurist and religious leader. “‘Compels’ is a strong word, but it is exactly what the Constitution does. It puts what we now call ‘peacemaking’ at the heart of the Constitution’s process for achieving freedom and unity, and fairness for all.”
His remarks are the first by a Church President at Washington National Cathedral, a “house of prayer for all people,” and came on the eve of the country’s Constitution Day. The event, titled “Faith, Freedom and the Common Good,” explored the relationship between religious faith and American democracy. The gathering was part of the cathedral’s “A Better Way” series, which encourages Americans to find common ground and move forward together in polarized times.
President Oaks said he was participating in the effort to help “embody the love of God in public life,” offering “hope for unity and a moral framework to move forward in a divided world.”
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My daughter will have her turn at the Scripps National Spelling Bee this afternoon between 1:25 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.! She is Speller #228! Good luck Ashley!
There's still time for history to remember the U.S. as the indispensable ally in Ukraine's underdog victory over a brutal, lawless, outrageous invasion.
So let's do that.
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I think about this all the time because not only did I at 10 or whatever need to wake up and realize 5is family I knew so well was real and not the Mormon abstraction I had heard about, but also they were kind enough to lie and say “we’ve all been there!”
When I was a little kid and my family moved to Idaho I believed all this dumb stuff about Mormons from pop culture and one day I was in this car with my best friend and made a joke about Mormons and his dad said “you know we’re Mormons, Ben” and I was so ashamed and I apologized and he said “it’s ok. We had dumb thoughts about Hollywood Jews before meeting you too” and everyone laughed.
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@TheGermanicist@Latterdaytruth Russian. 1991. I first served in Estonia, and some of the very first Estonian speaking missionaries took the ferry into Tallinn with me from the mission home in Helsinki