The basic bargain of democracy is that citizens mutually forswear political violence.
In response to a critique, we are seeing a tendency across the political spectrum to answer with insistence on the greater immorality of those raising the concern - “WHAT ABOUT that [awful thing]”? Here’s why that’s so destructive.
With a new year comes a new focus of study for Latter-day Saints—and an opportunity to think more expansively about what “the Church” is.
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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...
The longer our cucumber brains sit in the salt brine of pandemic-induced incubation, the more likely they are to pickle with savory wisdom for the deepest questions of our souls. Or at least one can hope so. One of those queries for me concerns an inescapable tension...
“It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric. To lower the temperature. To see each other again. To listen to each other again. To make progress, we must stop treating our opponents as our enemy. We are not enemies. We are Americans.” —Joe Biden Lovely rhetoric. Rhetoric...
Soon after the contentious 2016 US presidential election, I turned on Colorado Public Radio and experienced something rather unusual. Instead of hearing a seasoned talk show host pose provocative questions to polished political spokespersons, I heard the clanging of...
