Dialogue
Honor the Pilgrims by Cultivating Tolerance
Let’s make the Pilgrims proud by shedding any tendency towards intolerance across social, political, and religious differences.
Patrice Pederson
November 26, 2019
Let’s make the Pilgrims proud by shedding any tendency towards intolerance across social, political, and religious differences.
Suffering is everywhere. And yet, by the way we sometimes talk, you’d think it’s a rarity. Or at least better to avoid in polite company.
A review of Who Is Truth: Reframing Our Questions for a Richer Faith by Jeffrey Thayne and Edwin Gantt.
Our worldview shapes everything we see. Yet what shapes our worldview is often hardly noticed—including secular messaging deeply corrosive to faith.
It may seem easy for a Feminist to support the new push to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, but there are urgent questions we must answer.
Something goes into building community that is different than simply banding together with people we like or share an ideology with. They’re not the same!
One of the most beautiful aspects of a University is intentional space for exploring differences in perspective. That space is worth fighting to preserve.
Stories of this kind are written to fascinate and engrosse us in the details.
Doubts about faith are everywhere. But little scrutiny goes to taken-for-granted secular assumptions that set the stage for these same doubts. Why is that?
The request that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints not be referred to as “Mormon” is similar to the way the Pilgrims navigated their identity.
The fall of the Berlin Wall was an early memory as a child, scarcely comprehended. Americans today don’t seem to grasp its full import either. But they should.