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Deciding Who to Trust

The question of trust is front and center in crises in America today. Some declare a need to “trust more”—while others insist on less and a need for more scrutiny and critique. What if they are both right?

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Latter-day Saints and the problem of “performative objectivity”

McKay Coppins’ recent Atlantic feature on the church noted a tension among Latter-day Saints trying to authentically live their faith while fitting into a culture that rejects them. Should we expect Latter-day Saint historians to be able to avoid that same challenge?

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Do You ‘Believe in Science’…or Not?

Is science an oracle of truth—revealing what we should do and how we should think—or is it an ongoing, contested deliberation about that truth?

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The Indoctrination Nobody Talks About

Our worldview shapes everything we see. Yet what shapes our worldview is often hardly noticed—including secular messaging deeply corrosive to faith.

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Questioning the Certainties of a Secular World

Doubts about faith are everywhere. But little scrutiny goes to taken-for-granted secular assumptions that set the stage for these same doubts. Why is that?