Endless sales, politicking, and bickering have convinced many to see persuasion as a bad thing ("as long as you don't try and persuade me"). We're going to try and persuade you otherwise.
As we look to make sense of the news of this last week, it may be wise to look back on a more than 50 year old film that asks what exactly is an oath.
Is it possible that humankind’s deepest yearnings for connection, unity, shared meaning, and love are the shared sacred quest of both religion and the best rock?
A greater awareness of sexual pleasure is not enough to confront the serious challenges young people face navigating sexuality in America today.
Divergent emotions evoked by Senator Romney’s impeachment vote reveal something more important than just partisan passions.
When we reduce complex conversations to simple for-or-against-us battles, we perpetuate the conditions that make creative and peaceful resolutions unlikely.
Something goes into building community that is different than simply banding together with people we like or share an ideology with. They're not the same!
That this thing called “sexuality” ought to dictate much of our lives is hardly questioned anymore, including among Christians. But is this right or true?
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Endless sales, politicking, and bickering have convinced many to see persuasion as a bad thing ("as long as you don't try and persuade me"). We're going to try and persuade you otherwise.
God pronounces this union fully equal and names it an “equal partnership.” Equal, not because spouses are the same or have the same proclivities or skills, but because of a profoundly interwoven union that reflects common burden-sharing.
Is it possible that humankind’s deepest yearnings for connection, unity, shared meaning, and love are the shared sacred quest of both religion and the best rock?
As we look to make sense of the news of this last week, it may be wise to look back on a more than 50 year old film that asks what exactly is an oath.
A greater awareness of sexual pleasure is not enough to confront the serious challenges young people face navigating sexuality in America today.
Between Coco and The Good Place pop culture sure wants the afterlife to end. Is that because our religious culture isn't providing a better vision?
Divergent emotions evoked by Senator Romney’s impeachment vote reveal something more important than just partisan passions.
Though the world may seem darker without Clay in it, his teachings and his example will inspire us to make the world much brighter regardless of our profession.
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...
In an age of fiercely independent souls and an individualistic culture often drenched in ego-driven objectives, the very idea of marriage between equal partners can be challenging to comprehend—even more so to live out. That’s simply not how many have experienced...
For two decades, we have interviewed religious wives and husbands in long-term happy marriages and we asked them how they kept their love alive. We heard relational and religious answers that reflected a variety of wisdom. Like most Americans of our generations (X and...
What happened the last time you sat down next to someone on an airplane flight? As tempting as it is to zone out with the latest movie, imagine what it would be like if (after other pleasantries) you said to the person next to you, “Tell me about something you...
