A centered spiritual life looks beyond the present and asks, ‘how will it end?’ How will it end for me, for my family, for my community and indeed for the world? From a contest over clothing, to brutal social violence, our current social course seems to be all-symptomatic of a human failing to privilege grace over nature.

Will it end with the reproduction of all of our cultural norms, folkways and mores intact? If so, the Book of Mormon makes clear that the compounding interest on ‘business as usual’ is ultimately too high a price to pay. We are finally called to a life of spiritual integrity, where all parts of ourselves work in a harmony with each other. Where the admonishment to be people of grace bears itself out in our personal as well as our political yearnings. Where our churched spaces are characterized not only by the spiritual animation that is a central tenant of the religious life but also by a daily and public life that mirrors that animation. Where we, on a daily basis, powerfully catalyze social and cultural transformation – because our vision and hope in a joyous end is more potent and motivating than our yielding to the inevitability of the final grisly, brutal apocalyptic downfall of the human race?

-Gina Colvin, "On Pants and Shootings: How Will it End?"