Category Archives: Freedom Series

Removing Classrooms from the Battlefield: Pratt’s Dark Legacy and the Redemptive Promise of School Choice[1]

                                                Daniel E. Witte, Esq., and Paul Mero[2]

Utah’s new school voucher law has meant many things to many people.  For the 43 percent of our Hispanic and African American public-school students who do not graduate with a diploma, the voucher law represented a sense of hope and opportunity.  For anti-voucher advocates who have a romanticized view of public schools, the voucher law is un-American and a threat to our democratic values. read more

Freedom In 300 Words Or Less: For Faithful Latter-day Saints

I think that it is impossible that ye should be ignorant of the things which have been spoken concerning the coming of Christ…yea, I know that these things were taught unto you bountifully before your dissension from among us…prepare your minds…the word is in Christ unto salvation. – Amulek to the poor and outcast in Antionum, Alma 34.

Introduction

I wrote this series beginning in 1978, the year I joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and every day thereafter. From the opening prayer of the Fall General Conference in 1978 to today, more than 40 years later, the words of the living prophets echo in my mind and press upon my heart. While tone and style ebb and flow according to the circumstances of the day and the needs of the Church, doctrine never changes. read more