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Month: February 2014

If You Take Away Religion . . .

If You Take Away Religion . . .

Pete sent this along recently.  It’s a great statement on integral role of religion in democracy.  It somehow reminded me of another airplane conversation I had as I sat next to a cop from Belfast on a flight to London a year or so ago.  His newspaper had an article about several police officers from Belfast that had been injured in sectarian violence the day before. He also worked on the riot squad and regularly puts his life on the…

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Sheep Among the Wolves

Sheep Among the Wolves

Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images Uno, Duo, Tre Originally Published February 4, 2014 at Modern Mormon Men I’m joining MMM as a full-time contributor so add it to your reading list.__________________ Having called his Twelve Apostles, the Lord endowed them with great power and sent them to rescue the lost sheep of the House of Israel. He said ‘I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves’ and then enjoined them to be ‘wise as serpents, and harmless as doves’…

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