3.7 Tolerance

What do we do when we disagree with family, neighbors, and friends over things so important to us that it seems impossible to reconcile? David O’McKay’s fundamental belief in free agency and love of those around him meant he respected other’s beliefs and lived a life of tolerance, while still taking action when he thought it was needed. In this episode we look at specific examples of tolerance from his life and try to apply these lessons to our own lives as we navigate the modern world of opinion and debate. David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, by Gregory A Prince and WM Robert Wright https://www.amazon.com/David-McKay-Rise-Modern-Mormonism/dp/0874808227 Transcript of President Joe Biden’s inauguration speech https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/20/joe-biden-inauguration-speech-transcript-full-text-460813 Juanita Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juanita_Brooks Dialogue Fireside, January 17: Benjamin Park on “Mormonism’s Many Modernisms: What the Faith’s Alternative Trajectories in the Early Twentieth Century Tell Us About the Twenty-First.” https://www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/dialogue-fireside-4-w-benjamin-park/ More on Amy B Lyman and Franklin S Harris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_B._Lyman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_S._Harris Matters of Conscience, by Sterling M. McMurrin and L. Jackson Newell http://signaturebookslibrary.org/sterling-m-mcmurrin/ No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, by Fawn M. Brodie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Man_Knows_My_History