It's understandable that many would have questions and concerns with the percentage of people declining the COVID-19 vaccine. But rather than make space for a human exchange about serious fears on both sides, incendiary rhetoric makes such conversation impossible, by insisting the only reason for dissent is selfishness or blatant ignorance.
As CRT has come into academic vogue, it’s found its way more and more onto the campus at Brigham Young University. Should that be something we celebrate or oppose?
Motherhood is not merely a function of “those who give birth” but rather an eternal path characteristic of all womanhood.
COVERING THE COVERAGE
Last fall, I sat down with Steven T. Collis, a research fellow at the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, to speak about his book on religious freedom cases, Deep Conviction. We spoke about Espinoza v. Montana scheduled for oral arguments this week. In...
On Monday, The Washington Post published an article with a headline that misrepresented leaders of my faith. The headline read "Mormon Church misled members on 100 billion fund.” That's not the argument the article makes, however. The article itself contains a...
Painful and terrible things happen every day in our communities and nation. And when we check out the news, we’ve all become accustomed to exploring their circumstances in often lurid detail. Compared to the appropriate sorrow we might feel when another instance of...
The well-being of youth and children is — and should be — common ground on which everyone can stand. We all want children to thrive and find joy. That’s easy to forget in an environment of “us-versus-them” rhetoric where so much important nuance is lost. This is...
We therapists can be self-centered and overconfident. You know that old expression, "give a man a hammer, and everything looks like a nail?" Well, for many of us therapists, there is no problem that could not be solved if we could not just get it on the couch and...
It feels as though we live in different realities. Whether you’re liberal or conservative, white or black, queer or straight, our worldviews have never felt further apart. The last several years have done more to pull us each into our own ideological corners than any...
For obvious and important reasons, membership councils in the Church of Jesus Christ have always been private matters. Given the sensitive and personal nature of the discussions, leaders do not comment publicly on membership councils in order to protect those involved...
