Articles/Essays – Volume 37, No. 1

Postscript from Iraq: A Flicker of Hope in Conflict’s Moral Twilight

2004: Matthew Bolton, “Postscript from Iraq: A Flicker of Hope in Conflict’s Moral Twilight” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 37 No. 1 (2004): 180-187.

It was as I waded through the sewage, stagnant in the streets of one of Africa’s biggest slums—Mukuru, Nairobi, Kenya—while on an assignment with the Community of Christ-sponsore  WorldService Corps in summer 2000, that I was first struck by the enormity of the world’s problems and the horrifying conditions faced by the majority of its inhabiants.