freedom Archive

  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    Posted on August 19, 2011 | 9 Comments
    I am here one day, and on the next, I am gone. Yet I am part of a community, a society, and a species, that will continue after I am dead. I live in the immeasurable debt and preparation of those who have gone before, […]

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  • Hate

    Posted on February 24, 2011 | 7 Comments
    As an antidote to all the love around here lately, I thought I’d offer up a little bit of good old-fashioned hate. I grew up in a very low key household where strong feelings didn’t really have a place.   My typical toddler tantrums were […]

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  • Joanna Brooks, Elder Oaks and the ‘Battle’ for ‘Religious Freedom’

    Posted on February 10, 2011 | 13 Comments
    In her post today, Joanna offers an insightful analysis of Elder Oaks’ recent address, in context of the larger campaign he and other church leaders have been waging to call orthodox LDS members to ‘battle’. For links to the addresses by Elder Oaks, and other […]

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