Does anti-elite media sharpen or shatter judgment? Extremist talking heads destabilize reality and easing moral inversion.
What made 2025’s best family movies stand out? Under-the-radar gems balance laughs, courage, and moral clarity.
Dallin H. Oaks pairs law with love, showing humility, outreach, and a call to hold truth with tenderness.
Are safe spaces truly safe? Growth requires loving confrontation, not echo chambers or blind acceptance.
Ancient accounts of the covenant are (mis)taken by modern eyes to be legalistic and punitive—rather than the grace-filled entreaty of a God to His beloved people.
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.”
If we seek to end direct violence without paying more attention to structural and cultural contributors, will we be successful? Not if we’re paying attention to advice from the Book of Mormon.
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