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Latter-day Saints leave conference with a call to change a contentious world through peacemaking |
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| | “Contention is a choice,” said President Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday morning. “Peacemaking is a choice. You have your agency to choose contention or reconciliation. I urge you to choose to be a peacemaker, now and always.” A hallmark of President Nelson’s five years as church president has been his consistent invitations to build bridges, model civility and create unity. He invited members to change the world one interaction at a time: By modeling respect for honest differences of opinion through respectful behavior and dignified language. To become "a true light on the hill — a light that ‘cannot be hid.'" Show there is a respectful way to work through disagreements. |
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