Stephen Wellington is a 3rd generation Latter Day Saint with his Grandparents and father converting in 1960 in Düsseldorf,Germany.
Stephen lived in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia for 13 years whilst growing up. But went to a Cranleigh School, a British Public School, from 13 to 18 years of age. His claim to fame is that he played rugby twice against Prince William.
Stephen served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Cape Town, South Africa from 2001 to 2003.
Stephen was always an avid reader on Mormonism with his father authoring a book and contributing to FARMS. Stephen's interest in Mormon History was ignited after his mission. He contributes to The Mormon Worker, an Anarchist Mormon Journal and has a website called Politics and Anarchism. Stephen defines himself as a Cooperativist and Libertarian socialist with Christian-Anarchist leanings(similar to Tolstoy). He is a member of LDS Cooperative
He is currently studying Medicine at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. He is married with a child on the way and plays rugby for the University Medical School. Author Profile: Stephen Wellington
Stephen Wellington is a 3rd generation Latter Day Saint with his Grandparents and father converting in 1960 in Düsseldorf,Germany.
Stephen lived in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia for 13 years whilst growing up. But went to a Cranleigh School, a British Public School, from 13 to 18 years of age. His claim to fame is that he played rugby twice against Prince William.
Stephen served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Cape Town, South Africa from 2001 to 2003.
Stephen was always an avid reader on Mormonism with his father authoring a book and contributing to FARMS. Stephen's interest in Mormon History was ignited after his mission. He contributes to The Mormon Worker, an Anarchist Mormon Journal and has a website called Politics and Anarchism. Stephen defines himself as a Cooperativist and Libertarian socialist with Christian-Anarchist leanings(similar to Tolstoy). He is a member of LDS Cooperative
He is currently studying Medicine at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. He is married with a child on the way and plays rugby for the University Medical School. Author Archive for Stephen Wellington
I have to admit sadly if it came to push or shove Mormon Matter opinions and the Internet in the main override what information I would receive from a member of my congregation. Primarily because it’s a collective think tank that has looked at it from different angles and in more depth.
Since Mormon Stories, Mormon Matters, For those who wonder.com and a plethora of others that have come into my view it has significantly changed my insights of what I thought was black and white dramatically. Continue reading…
I was recently in Europe, partly for a vacation and partly for a series of talks in Austria. During the trip I had the pleasure of touring a major church and hearing the guide answer questions. Someone asked, why did people of the distant past support the church so stupendously, with so much of their time, nearly all their income beyond subsistence, and, really, their every life product? The guide answered, I think brilliantly. She said, you have to try to imagine being back there yourself. There was no sewage, no electricity, no color, no music, no entertainment, not even cleanliness, in people’s daily lives. It was harsh, harsh, and more harsh - except when you went to the church. Continue reading…
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Creating Zion requires 2 things:
1) A Vision of what it is like
2) Faith we can achieve it.
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If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it? The recent practice of propaganda has proved that it is possible, at least up to a certain point and within certain limits. – Bernays
It was a sunny Saturday and I was sitting in the synagogue with my friend Sam… Continue reading…
This is the story of forgiveness.
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Call it what you will….call it brown-nosing in the UK & kissin butt in the US…but I felt extremely frustrated this week trying to follow in John’s shoes and it helped me to realize what an awesome guy he is and the things he might have gotten through to get Mormon Stories to us. I was glad to see him voted as the unsung hero of mormon blogging this year.
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Those who know me know that I have a lot of vitriol for bankers. As an industry, they have their “New World Order” in the palm of their hands….or if you look at it from the working man’s perspective…our democracies by the gonads!
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Here are 3 videos (all together about 30 minutes) from a recent Oprah episode where she interivews Thomas Beatie about being the worlds first pregnant man.
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Sgt. Marshall Thompson, a Mormon GI from Utah, who served in Iraq speaks about his Anti-Iraq War protest walk, his experience in Iraq, his hopes for an end to the occupation and his fears of protesting in the “reddest state in the country”.
Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti, the head of the Apostolic Penitentiary of the Catholic Church, was asked by the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano what, in his opinion, are the “7 deadly sins of the 21st Century.” Here is what he had to say:
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MY DISENCHANTMENT WITH THE STATE
Perhaps I should blame Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Amy Goodman or John Pilger for my enlightenment. Or perhaps I should thank the neocons, George Bush and Tony Blair for waging an illegal war, as judged by the UN, in Iraq and destroying my naive ideal of the United States & UK. I am only 25 and had never experienced the fears of recession or seen, first hand, the duplicity of my own government before. As time went on, I began to read, download, and read more. Why was the world I knew as a student and a young man at secondary school not the world I was seeing and learning of?
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MY DISENCHANTMENT WITH CHURCH
As long as I can remember, I was always rebellious against what I felt was unjust coercion, but I feel it was not until my mission that I started to come into conflict with authority.
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John Reaney took the Hereford diocesan board of finance to an employment tribunal after his appointment as a youth worker was blocked.
Being a latitudarian, I hold the separation of church and state as part of my sacrosanct liberality. Continue reading…
Amy Goodman from Democracy Now Interviewing Charles Kernaghan, the executive director of the National Labor Committee
