Tales of the Texas Blackout
Evelyn HornbargerMessages of light emerging from darkness are so common as to be almost cliché. Until you experience it yourself. Like I did in an unusually cold, isolated Texas in February.
Bites of the Best Books: March 2021
Samuel B. HislopThis month, passages about the most potent moral figure in Western culture, the influences on Augustine, and the enduring wisdom of the prophet Jeremiah.
A Fourth Take on The BYU Racial Equity Report
Richard WilliamsSearching for Christianity in the latest BYU Equity Report. Eleven theses toward a more productive conversation on race.
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That Big Religious Freedom Case Is Not What You Think
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
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
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
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...
A Fourth Take on The BYU Racial Equity Report
In response to the recent (March 6, 2021) essay in Public Square Magazine entitled “Three Public Takes on the BYU Racial Equity Report,” I offer a fourth response. As the article blurb suggests, my dis-ease with the BYU report centers on the distinct absence of a...
Tales of the Texas Blackout
Puffs of my breath made mist in the cold air. Yikes! I hadn't seen that phenomenon for years. Especially inside my house. It was disturbing. This is my story of sadness and generosity that occurred during the Texas Blackout in February of 2021. There was buzz on the...
The Mark of the Beast is More Than a Punchline
Last week, Marjorie Taylor Greene, a congressional representative from Georgia, quipped that the vaccine passport that has been discussed of late was the “Biden mark of the beast.” The response was predictable. The Huffington Post described it as “bonkers.” The...