How to celebrate Thanksgiving this year is a challenging question for many American families. Whatever the details of the decision, let's hold on to the transcendent spirit of the holiday.
We can fully embrace our moral progress without rejecting the influential men and women of the past who failed to live up to the standards of today.
Partisans on both sides were seized upon by the urgency of picking their candidate for President—with everyone else encouraged to join the fray. Is that really the most important choice we just faced?
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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...
As disciples of Jesus Christ, we are called to hold fast to the revealed truths of the Restored Gospel in a polarized and contentious world. This polarization is driving members of the Church to spiritually dangerous extremes, tempting some Latter-day Saints to reduce...
As the United States finishes weathering the conclusion of this ugly presidential election, I still wonder if choosing between these two candidates was really the ultimate point (as so many of us were convinced)? At the transformative moment in Latter-day Saint...
Every Who Down in Whoville Liked Thanksgiving a lot … But staring down with a sour frown at the warm lighted windows below in their town, emerged something on Holiday Eve, snarling with a sneer. Growling, with fingers nervously drumming, this thing said "I MUST find...
