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March 26, 1981. I attended a convention not long ago that
could have a positive influence on family life in Utah. It was the second Utah
Interfaith Consultation held at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. Dr. Horace
M. McMullen of Westminster was the director of the convention.
About 100 people attended the
two-day conference held on the Westminster campus, and the participants were
representative of various Christian denominations around the state. We all met
with one primary goal—to promote better understanding and cooperation within
the Christian communities in Utah.
The State of Utah was settled by the
Mormon Pioneers in 1847, but it was gently brought to our attention that Father
Escalante and the Catholics practiced one specific dimension of Christianity.
It is simply stated in Matthew 22:39: “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
Family life in Utah would likely be
enhanced if we could all cross our religious lines and be a little more
neighborly.
Utah is richly blessed with a
diversity of religious, racial, cultural, and ethnic groups, and it would be to
the advantage of all if we could live in harmony as neighbors. Differences
obviously do exist, but we can learn to have unity without uniformity.
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