How Collective Healing Happens
In all the debate around appropriate accountability, reform, and policy change, far less attention has gone to how to find healing together as a people.
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In all the debate around appropriate accountability, reform, and policy change, far less attention has gone to how to find healing together as a people.
Read MoreIn the wake of calls for racial justice, it can be easy to feel defensive. Christ’s apostles modeled another way: looking introspectively.
Read MoreIt’s easy for any of us to assume that people disagreeing with our own views are influenced by ill-will, dishonesty or callousness. But what if we didn’t?
Read MoreConspiracy theories can be dangerous and outright false. But they can also sometimes be true (opioid epidemic). Rather than write them all off, how can we better discern truth from error?
Read MoreWhen it comes to public discourse, not all conversations are equally challenging. Maybe it shouldn’t surprise us how angry disagreements about health are.
Read MoreIn a climactic time of pandemic, maybe the simple fare of the gospel doesn’t quite do the job. Or maybe it’s exactly what we need?
Read MoreIt’s easy to characterize anyone speaking about the last days as “fear mongering.” Prophets of the Church of Jesus of Christ provide a striking counter-example.
Read MoreWhen strong disagreements take place publicly, it’s no longer surprising when death threats occur – on both sides. Why is that? And what will it take to preserve space for productive disagreement in the days ahead?
Read MoreWill we continue the patterns of contempt and division in this new America? Or will we reach for something better?
Read MoreTo disagree strongly, even about sensitive, important questions, is not the same as hatred. To read some news about BYU’s honor code changes this month, however, you could be forgiven for presuming they were the same.
Read MoreIn a world where youth are increasingly inundated with sex, it’s not responsible, inspired leadership they need protection from.
Read MoreDivergent emotions evoked by Senator Romney’s impeachment vote reveal something more important than just partisan passions.
Read MoreWhen we reduce complex conversations to simple for-or-against-us battles, we perpetuate the conditions that make creative and peaceful resolutions unlikely.
Read MoreWhen we look at Latter-day Saint rhetoric through the traditional heaven/hell lens it may seem overly harsh. The actual doctrine is much more welcoming.
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