Principled inclusion can and should be a welcome part of Christian discipleship. But like all virtues, this one can be exaggerated to the point that it is no longer a virtue at all.
Confusion, anxiety, despair, and anger are everywhere. Thankfully, we are not left “comfortless” or without inspired direction in these challenging times.
However nice it would be to feel unified in our response to COVID-19, there are many ongoing differences in perspective between thoughtful, good-hearted people. Could it help to map out fairly what those disagreements are?
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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...
When passions run high we all know how easy it is to say things that make continuing conversations about important questions hard—even impossible. That happens in family relationships—and it has been happening more and more (and more) as a country. “Pro-life” and...
Of course, holiness is fairly easy if you don’t care about unity; you just split over every disagreement. Similarly, unity is fairly easy if you don’t care about holiness; anything goes and we shrug our shoulders and ignore it...The world will take no notice of a...
It’s not just sickness that has spread widely in recent months. Despair, anxiety, resentment, and confusion also haunt our lands and hearts. While enormous effort has gone toward helping our physical bodies find protection or healing from the virus, far less attention...
