During the April 2023 general conference, President Russell M. Nelson invited listeners to be peacemakers. “Peacemaking is a choice. You have your agency to choose contention or reconciliation. I urge you to choose to be a peacemaker, now and always,” he said. 

He concluded with an invitation: “Today I invite you to examine your discipleship within the context of the way you treat others. I bless you to make any adjustments that may be needed so that your behavior is ennobling, respectful and representative of a true follower of Jesus Christ.”

In June and July, President Nelson reiterated his invitation to be peacemakers and listed ways to disagree in a Christlike way.

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