Email us to recommend your own favorite reading on justice, equality, peace, or stewardship. We're especially interested in readings related to Mormonism, but we welcome suggestions of anything that is of good report or praiseworthy.

Economic Justice

Approaching Zion, Hugh Nibley (Salt Lake City & Provo: Deseret Book, FARMS, 1989)

"The Economics of Zion," Dean May (Sunstone [Aug. 1990]: 15-23)

"Socioeconomic Inequality: The Haves and the Have-nots," Richard E. Johnson (BYU Today [Sept. 1990]: 47-58)

Working Toward Zion, James W. Lucas & Warner P. Woodworth (Salt Lake City: Aspen Books, 1999)

Environment

Brother Brigham Challenges the Saints, Hugh Nibley (Salt Lake City & Provo: Deseret Book, FARMS, 1994)

"The Environmental Ethics of Mormon Belief," George B. Handley (BYU Studies 40.2 [2001]: 187-211)

New Genesis: A Mormon Reader on Land and Community, ed. Terry Tempest Williams, William B. Smart & Gibbs M. Smith (Salt Lake City: Gibbs-Smith, 1998)

Peace and Nonviolence

"Sheaves, Bucklers, and the State: Mormon Leaders Respond to the Dilemmas of War," Ronald W. Walker (The New Mormon History, ed. D. Michael Quinn [Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1992]: 267-301)

Nonviolent Soldier of Islam: Badshah Khan, A Man to Match His Mountains, Eknath Easwaran (Tomales, CA: Nilgiri Press, 1999)

Religion and Social Justice

Davita's Harp, Chaim Potok (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985)

A Theology of Liberation, Gustavo Gutierrez (Rev. ed. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1988)

Social Activism

The Long Haul: An Autobiography, Myles Horton (New York: Teachers College, 1998)

Restless: The Memoirs of Labor and Consumer Activist Esther Peterson, Esther Peterson (Washington, D.C.: Caring, 1995)