What is the real ecological crisis? Family and fertility decline threaten human and societal sustainability.
Can a film be both fun and moral? Great family films require virtue, moral clarity, and timeless values.
Is freedom purely external? True freedom comes from inner strength and spiritual liberation, not political victories.
Framing questions about culture war topics can go a long way toward understanding. It’s ok for others “to have a different religion than us.”
This is the sixth in a series by Arthur Peña, Charles Randall Paul, and Jacob Hess called “Inevitable Influencers: Why (deep down) we all want—and need—to persuade each other of what we see as good, beautiful, and true.” Previous pieces include “Why Persuasion Should be a Sweet (Not a Dirty) Word”; “The Threat of Persuasion,” and “My Truth? Your Truth? No Truth?”; “The Virtues of Strong Disagreement,” and “Our Judgment Against Judgment.”
Latter-day Saints aren’t the only ones reenacting transcendent stories through symbolic, experiential pedagogy. But we may be unique in relishing these stories as God’s exalting truth.
Does freedom mean doing what we want? Real freedom and autonomy comes from knowing and living higher moral truths.
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