Latter Day Satyagraha O, how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of those who shall hereafter publish peace, yea, from this time henceforth and forever!
The Mormon Worker
The Mormon Worker meaning-fully connects core ideas of Mormon theology with a host of political, economic, ecological, philosophical, and social topics.
LiberalMormon.net
Social justice is more than charitable aid. It means working for change in how the human family organizes itself politically and economically.
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Affirmation
Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons serves the needs of gay Mormon women and men, as well as bisexual and transgender LDS and their supportive family and friends.
Carol Lynn Pearson We can be sufficiently creative and sufficiently kind that we will draw circle upon circle upon circle, bringing each other in, leaving no one out, joining, linking, enlarging, until the pattern of the whole human family, seen through the Eye of God, is complete.
Sunstone Foundation Sunstone brings together traditional and non-traditional Latter-day Saints,
promoting an atmosphere that values both faith and intellectual and experiential
integrity.
Restorations Grant, O Lord, that your Holy and life-giving Spirit may so move every human heart, that barriers which divide us may crumble, suspicions disappear and hatred cease; that, our divisions being healed, we may live in justice and peace, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Mormon Tabernacle Choir: Truth is Marching !
What do the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Gordon B. Hinckley, Martin Luther King,
Mahatma Gandhi, Desmond Tutu and Aung San Suu Kyimet have in common?
New and improved MESJ This brand new MESJ portal connects the themes of equality and social justice, peace and nonviolence, environmental issues, and much more. Same logo, more diverse MESJ !
MESJ archives While the former MESJ group no longer exists, you may want to reflect back on the beginnings of the original MESJ and make good use of her archive and library.
MESJ and Worldwide Mormon Media No more strangers. An new reference work cataloging church as well as independent mormon media, in many of the world's living languages. A MESJ production.
MESJ the Dutch Connection MESJ has an independent sister organization in Belgium and The Netherlands:
MVG- Mormonen voor Vrede en Gerechtigheid (Mormons for Peace and Justice).
MESJ in Afrikaans Shedding apartheid has been a difficult process, requiring modification of repressive laws and cultivation of new attitudes between brothers and sisters.
MESJ in Esperanto La Evangelio de Jesuo Kristo konfrontas nin kun la ofte malkomfortigaj demandoj pri paco, justeco, egaleco, kaj ekologio. En la Internacia Lingvo Esperanto.
MESJ Boston Contact Peter McMurray about our monthly break-the-fast potlucks (first Sunday of each month), offering members a chance to discuss current issues and plan upcoming events.
MESJ Washington DC Ou chapter is comprised of a sizable number of local LDS progressives who meet regularly. Check out our facebook page and contact us for more information. Please join us!
MESJ supporting Immigrants Full-time missionaries returning with honor and with a deep sense of love and compassion for all Gods children. Our Heavenly Father simply doesn't have any illegitimate children.
MESJ May Day Celebrations Both a distress call and a celebration and gathering in fasting and prayer to exercise our collective
spiritual strength to eradicate poverty and advance the cause of social justice
worldwide.
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One Voice - video
Young Latter Day Saints proclaim: We are the ones that will change the world. Our work has just begun.
A proclamation and an invitation to dedication.
Migrants: illegals or God's ambassadors? The desperate poor who migrate north are representatives from whom we are estranged. Perhaps God is sending them to revitalize our churches, our nation and our broken world.
Deportees - music video Joan Baez
Bob Dylan and Joan Baez sang in 1976 about a theme that is still here to haunt us in 2010 as unfortunately many Latter Day Saints in Arizona give political support for the "papers please" law.
Victor Jara of Chile - music video
The brutal way in which he was murdered transformed Victor Jara into a symbol of struggle for human rights and social justice across Latin America. A song by Christy Moore.
The Prayer of the Children - music video As Latter-day Saints, we seek the guidance of the Spirit and look to the teachings of Jesus in our efforts to achieve equality and social justice in our communities and the world at large.
Barefoot Anthropology Barefoot anthropology is a more humane, engaged, poetic, symbolic less scientific way of interpreting the human experience.
Her author Jason Brown says: But talk is cheap, let's go to work!
Mormon Zion Project
Bart Tippets: We will work towards a Zion society in which the Saints become 'one heart and one mind and dwell in righteousness and there are no poor among us'. (Moses 7: 18)
Progressive site for YW leaders
The site "Beginnings New" is the place for LDS young women's leaders looking for more than clip art and cute.
Substantive, positive, caring, smart... YW lesson helps, ideas, conversation.
Art for a Change Artist Mark Vallen was born and raised in Los Angeles, California (1953) and has been creating socially conscious art works in the realist tradition.
Read Sojourners Magazine Online
Sojourners' mission is to articulate the biblical call to social justice, inspiring hope and building a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church, and the world.
MESJ (pronounced "message") is an independent grassroots organization of Latter-day Saint individuals who are “anxiously engaged” in working for peace, equality, justice, and wise stewardship of the earth. MESJ is not responsible for content provided by external links.
