LDS Cooperative "one heart and one mind...with no poor among us"

Hello all,

I'm a relative newcomer, but want to get LDS cooperative pumping blood again and hope you are still interested in the endeavor. Steve Wellington has given me the go ahead to administer the site and update the content, but what I'd like to know is what is missing? What can be done to make this project viable and interesting folks?

I'm ready to start blogging and sharing my thoughts on the matters at hand and hope you will return to share as well. The podcast should be revived as well and I'm willing to help. Anyhow, let's move forward and make something special. Or should I say "peculiar"?

-Tod

Most of the participants and readers of LDSCooperative, I’m guessing, are not currently living in cooperatives or dominantly socialist states. Personally, I live in the United Kingdom, a nation that is perhaps one of the closest to America in capitalist culture, despite powerful socialist innovations, such as the National Health Service. We’re used to capitalism – it’s what we’ve grown up with. It’s what we know. If your story is anything like mine, you’ve come across socialist principles through conversations with friends, or in your studies. It instantly makes sense to you. You think: ‘that’s what I believe!’ You wonder: ‘Why aren’t we living this way?’