And out of that conference, we realized that there's no kind of sustained, systematic, comprehensive approach to peace from a Restoration perspective. Back then, we said, "Mormon perspectives,”–changed that to the more appropriate term today. There aren't a lot of people doing work in this field and Latter-day Saints history and studies–although there's more of that happening in recent years.īut about 10 years ago, we were at a conference together in Claremont Graduate University, that was a conference on war and peace and Latter-day Saint perspectives. Patrick came from it from a more traditional peace studies approach and we brought the two together, and accidentally, in many ways, just found each other. I came to it in kind of more–in a more roundabout way through teaching at Ricks College and BYU-Idaho.īut we–I was very interested in non-violence in particular and the ways that that intersects with Latter-day Saint theology. He had more formal training and at the University of Notre Dame in their Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Well, Patrick and I have kind of each come to peace and conflict studies kind of separately. So to start off with, how did this book–and specifically, I'm curious, how your writing it with Patrick–come to be? But also it's interesting, I've recently been rereading the Book of Mormon, and realizing how timely those parts of the Book of Mormon that talk about conflict and contention are in our world today when it feels like everything is kind of in tumult. And certainly this is something that I think is so relevant in our world today. And the book is called Proclaim Peace and we're going to be talking all about peace today.īut I guess before we talk about peace, we have to talk a little bit about conflict. Well, I am so excited to kind of dig into a book that you recently wrote with Patrick Mason, who has been on our show previously. This is All In, an LDS Living podcast where we ask the question, what does it really mean to be all in the gospel of Jesus Christ? I'm Morgan Jones and I am so grateful to be with David Pulsipher today. He is also a practicing mediator as well as an author and editor. Jay David Pulsipher is a professor of history at Brigham Young University Idaho where he leads its program in peace and conflict transformation.
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Their book Proclaimed Peace is finally out, and I'm not sure it could have come at a better time.
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But David Pulsipher and Patrick Mason started writing a book 10 years ago that explores what the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants teach us about these subjects. Visit “Deseret Book Presents” for more informationĬould there be creation through conflict? Is engaging in violence a choice? What are the dangers of contention? And if contention carries potentially grave consequences, how do we avoid it? These are questions that may seem particularly timely.
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