The ten million acres under review in National Monuments, covering 27 national monuments (and I am including Bears Ears National Monument - although that has been separated by the government for some strange reason from the other monuments in legislative comment), needs to be informed by our American historical legacy of preserving lands. This bipartisan history formed since the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, and with the presidential mark of Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, is a foundation to build upon. These 'public lands held by public hands,' ensured employment for Americans, even in times of extreme public unemployment and destitution, when Americans went to work building infrastructure so that...
Spiritual Social Ministry
Talking Points for Parents & Children Facing Direct
or Indirect Discrimination and Threats of Deportation
Based on an Article by Cecilia Ayon published in the University of Chicago Journals
(and shaped in part/paraphrased by Dr. Leslie Whited)
1.Discrimination is real and must be addressed in its context. Respect and Empathy for family, ourselves and each other guides our eco-relations in community. Generational duty to: Teach Respect! Teach Empathy! Teach Non-Violence! Teach Culture & Family Center! Family is defined as those who love you and who you love. This may be defined by bloodlines. However, it may include advocates, neighbors, friends,...
Books
Devotions
All-Loving God,
We know you accompany
have preference for
the most vulnerable
and so you are with refugees
and you are especially with
people, refugees, of
Iraq
Iran
Somalia
Syria
Sudan
Libya
Yemen
that is sure.
You, God of Love,
can bring good out of even
this horrific national event
of discrimination
against national origin
against religion
that is sure.
Give us grace and courage
to do your will
and walk in your ways
with our brothers and sisters,
everywhere,
In every nation....
After the 2016 national election, as a private citizen, I grieve that nearly half of Americans eligible to vote did not vote. Some would say that this is because they weren't ‘inspired.’ Yet, the truth is that it is our great duty, delight and honor to cast a vote in a democracy. It is not entertainment. It is not second to whatever else is going on. It is not if we 'like' the candidate or the candidate looks like us or says what we want to hear. It is about being a discerning and wise people making an ever-better democracy where everyone counts, and it begins by voting. Doing nothing is still doing something. Together, we will now reap what we, as a whole people, have sown.
May we learn from this experience to vote, to make our voice heard. If it is...
MOSAIC Presentation For Church Women United Salt Lake Metro
Christian & Multi-Faith Women Panel USA Ecumencial Christian Women's Organization, 1941-
Dr. Leslie Whited’s Devotion - Sharing at the Table See Also: ChurchWomen.org
In the early Christian Church, sharing at the table meant taking extra bread, wine and food after worship to those most in need. Early carved frescoes show deacons, women and men, sharing from the altar to those most in need. There was a continuous flow from remember God to remembering where God chose to be – being present to, hanging out with, and really serving in transformative ways: prisoners,...
Thursday, is Manna Market day from 8:30-11 am at MOSAIC Inter-Faith
Ministries, 4392 South 900 East, Salt Lake City. This past Thursday,
Angelica, truly an Angel for us, and I, entered in each person arriving for
free food, clothing and household goods, with Quickbooks On-Line.
Quickly, given technological glitches, we realized that there really
are important priorities as we serve in the world:
God, Chocolate, Coffee and really good Books - in that order!
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Sermons
August 2015
Everything passes away. Where we are camping today was once covered with water followed by life in forms like the trilobite, something like a tiny fish or minnow. For those who have seen the latest Jurassic Park, dinosaurs roamed the earth, right where we sit right now, and they left big, huge, footprings. Their own fossils and petrified bones were left behind so we can prove this fact. Humankind, less gentle with the earth, leaves today's footprints.
All of this, Creation, our sinnerness-saintness humaness, was part of God's creativity. We have an infinitely creative God that loves us and integrates humankind into a beautiful tapestry of survival, life and beauty.
Camping, for us...
