January Master Class

January Master Class

Study/Learn

Do all of the following:

1 - Read "The 5,000 Year Leap" Principle 4: The Role of Religion

2 - From the "Dictionary of Cultural Literacy" write the following on your cards:
            - Alexis de Tocqueville

3 - Spend at least 20 minutes exploring the lds.org page on religious freedom, found here

4 - Click on the link "talks from leaders" and watch or read one of the talks listed

Know/Understand

1 - Come prepared to creatively teach the class what you learned from the article you read or watched (#4)

2 - Look in the newspaper or online at the news and find an article dealing with religious freedom.  Read it, print it and bring it to class for a discussion

Become/Serve

If it has been demonstrated that I have been willing to die for a "Mormon," I am bold to declare before Heaven that I am just as ready to die in defending the rights of a Presbyterian, a Baptist, or a good man of any denomination; for the same principle which would trample upon the rights of the Latter-day Saints would trample upon the rights of the Roman Catholics, or of any other denomination who may be unpopular and too weak to defend themselves. It is a love of liberty which inspires my soul — civil and religious liberty to the whole of the human race.

—Joseph Smith, 1843

Ponder on the above quote and then journal about why religious freedom is important to you and make a commitment to uphold it.