
Are Surviving Mormonism’s stories typical? Comparative data show rare failures in an institution ahead on reform.

Why do ward choirs matter? They build unity, model male-female harmony, bridge communities, and teach belonging.

Dallin H. Oaks pairs law with love, showing humility, outreach, and a call to hold truth with tenderness.

How can we foster kindness and softness in our own extended families and homes these holidays? Here are some thoughts.

Can we regard all nudity in art as innocent? Sexual undertones and potential for exploitation suggest not.
As we celebrate President’s Day today, let us be reminded of Abraham Lincoln’s inaguaral address he gave on March 4, 1865. Those words spoken then are just as relevant toay as they were in 1865. “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”

If we write off the Bible as irrelevant, we lose its proposals on meaning, purpose and self-worth. Other widely embraced answers, however, are despairing.
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