One could talk or write about environment and human effects on it at several scales from, for example, just cleaning up the place to mass conversion of landscapes and acidification of lakes. It seem to me that no discussion about life on earth as we know it is complete without at least a reference to the environment.
[…] me. And while we were there, he noticed Beulah and I were making more food than would feed the three of us; and when he asked about it, we just said that we’d be […]
I somehow lived my first twenty-nine years never having heard of Fascinating Womanhood, a how-to-save-your-marriage manual cum-lifestyle popularized by a Mormon housewife in the early 1960s. Thanks to historian and author Julie Debra Neuffer, that…
[…] not survive. For seven days after he was born, this young mother held, rocked, and tried to feed her infant son while he withered in her arms. There was nothing she could do to […]
[…] night, we’d go out with other activists to spray-paint butcher shops and furriers with pithy slogans like Feed it, don’t eat it or Are clothes to kill for? Afterwards, we’d hang out in some […]
Wild raspberry leaves had turned deep crimson and the stalks black.
For prayer I bowed in the field like one of the stalks, no less resigned.
Leaves of silver maple were shed and their underside had surrendered
to autumn mauve. In the eastern acre of the woods a sheet of yellow
In his book The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan identifies major problems caused by the recently emergent food industry and the negative effects they have on the health and wellbeing of individuals, communities, and the environments. Pollan’s observations mirror those of American poet-prophet Wendell Berry. Both highlight losses associated with the demise of independent, small-farm agricultures. Here, I suggest that the Mormon ethic of food in its ideal (if not lived) form beautifully, simply, and powerfully restores what is lost.
[…] that mourn” (Mosiah 18:9) as part of the baptismal covenant, and Christ teaches that his followers must feed the hungry and give drink to those who are thirsty. The fact that we are able […]
The Book of Mormon opens with a provocative conundrum: how can the sensory world of revelation most effectively be rendered in language? After introducing himself and his process of making scripture, the prophet-narrator Nephi recounts his father Lehi’s throne theophany and calling to be a prophet.This calling entailed two dramatic audio-visual encounters with the divine. In the first, Lehi prayed, and in response a pillar of fire appeared on a rock in front of him. By means of the pillar, somehow, “he saw and heard much” with such intensity he quaked, trembled, and was ultimately incapacitated by the experience (1 Nephi 1:6–7).
[…] has its own gifts and vulnerabilities, but neither is “less than” the other. The ways these temperaments feed a person’s faith are to be respected by all and granted space for their own flourishing. […]