
Taylor Frankie Paul’s distress exposes the limits of a cultural script that mistakes religious rebellion for freedom.

Christian discipleship asks us to serve our neighbors even when they misunderstand our faith.

The choice between pride and shame is a false binary—transcending both enables a growth mindset more conducive to durable Christian discipleship.

Can Latter-day Saint theology answer Nietzschean critiques? Both emphasize agency, power, and rejecting passivity.

Cherish the ground you walk on. Honor the influences that uphold you. They’re always there—until they’re not.


Messages 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.