Does sacrifice still define family? The new Lilo & Stitch shifts to community care over self-denial.
Can conspiracy thinking pave the way for the Antichrist? Yes—it distorts truth, fuels delusion, and prepares minds to worship lies as wonders.
What is the real ecological crisis? Family and fertility decline threaten human and societal sustainability.
I sit down with Carl Cranney and Liz Busby from Pop Culture on the Apricot Tree in this (ambitious!) crossover episode to discuss an episode of Netflix’s dystopian technology show Black Mirror. We had a blast talking through the Black Mirror episode “Hated in the Nation.” The discussion focuses on social media, and how it encourages bad behavior. We also talk about how we can resist the pull of cruelty and the “epistemology of hell” that drives the attention economy.
Some found it odd that the Church would ask people to stop using “Mormon” after its “I’m a Mormon” ad campaign. What if that was kind of the point?
Nonviolence is a wonderful aspiration, but is it always God’s will? In the face of true evil, Latter-day prophets make clear our obligation to sometimes fight.
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