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If More Treatment Is the Answer, Why Haven’t the Numbers Gone Down?

As suicide numbers increase, we continue to hear suggestions that “undertreatment” is the main problem. After two decades of rising treatment rates, could it be time to reassess?

The $100 Billion ‘Mormon Church’ story: A Contextual Analysis

Aaron Miller

Major headlines this week left a vivid impression in the public mind of a major scandal uncovered in the Church of Jesus Christ. A closer, more careful look suggests otherwise.

That Big Religious Freedom Case Is Not What You Think

Christopher D. Cunningham

The “biggest religious freedom case” of the Supreme Court’s current term may have more to do with the complicated relationship between courts, regulatory agencies, and state legislators than religion.

That Big Religious Freedom Case Is Not What You Think

Is Sexuality Who We Are or What We Do?

Edwin E. Gantt

Why Bad Things Must Happen to Good People

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COVERING THE COVERAGE

That Big Religious Freedom Case Is Not What You Think

by Christopher D. Cunningham

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...

We Look to Headlines for Direction. Let’s Make Them True

by Daryl Austin

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...

Making Peeping Toms of Us All

by Christopher D. Cunningham

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 Shouldn’t Become a Zero-Sum Battle

by Jacob Hess & Hal Boyd

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...

EDITORIALS

If More Treatment Is the Answer, Why Haven’t the Numbers Gone Down?

by Jacob Z. Hess

Just this week, a friend called to tell me he was on the way to a hospital to visit his daughter who had attempted to take her life. A few weeks ago, another friend confided his niece had made the same heartbreaking attempt. A month before that, a beautiful young man...

Is Sexuality Who We Are or What We Do?

by Edwin E. Gantt

As I have attempted to show over the course of this series of essays (here, here, and here), it is often the case that many of our doubts and struggles with our faith are rooted in unrecognized assumptions we have unwittingly absorbed from the larger secular culture...

Why Bad Things Must Happen to Good People

by Nathaniel Givens

Even if we accept that mortal life is difficult by design to some extent, we may still be left with the question: does there have to be this much of it? This is an ancient question. How do we reconcile a God who is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-loving with a...