One Current of the Mormon River, Highly Active Members in Bolivia

Many Latter-day Saints have expressed concerns over the loss of members, especially among the young. These are very important concerns, but they can easily cause us to not see other aspects of the Mormon community. 

At the moment, I am in a working class, proto-middle class part of El Alto, Bolivia, the fascinating city on the edge of the nation’s de facto capital, La Paz, staying with a Latter-day Saint family, the elder members of which became LDS in the seventies. 

Bolivia, Snowden, and Empire in a Rapidly Changing World

The world is changing rapidly and dangerously. Fallout from the Snowden affair shows portions of that change that should make Americans sit up and take notice.  

Global stability depends on checks and balances on power in the relationships among countries as well as a fragile set of norms, often called International law, established through treaties. Both have been thrown out of whack, at a time when the world’s institutions are stressed.