Families gather at a park to watch 4th of July fireworks celebrating America's founding.
America

America’s Divine Founding

America’s 250th anniversary calls Latter-day Saints to honor an inspired founding while defending liberty for all.

A family prepares for a religious liberty fast in prayer at home.
Bulletin

Five Prayers for Freedom

The July 5 fast provides an opportunity to turn gratitude into global petitions for conscience, courage, and compassion.

A front porch scene with seedlings representing the buds of religious freedom, while partisan flags are folded and cast to the side.
Religious Freedom

How Religious Freedom Takes Root

True religious freedom asks more of believers than slogans, flags, or partisan reflexes.

Religious Freedom

The Legal Framework of Religious Liberty

Centuries of religious persecution shaped our nation’s bold experiment to constitutionally protect religious liberty.

Family Matters

Robert P. George on Fidelity Month

The Princeton legal scholar’s grassroots movement invites Americans to renew commitments to God, family, country, and community.

Legal

The Importance of Religious Freedom

Latter-day Saints defend religious liberty not as a privilege for themselves, but as a doctrine for all humanity.

A colonial street preacher speaking in a marketplace evokes religious freedom and the spread of the gospel throughout the world.
Religious Freedom

Trusting God’s Hand in History

How has God influenced the unfolding of history? Providential history explores the divine role in human affairs in ages past.

Japanese families gather on a temple plaza as a newly married couple exits, reflecting questions of identity and belonging central to the Mormon Stories lawsuit.
Legal

Who is a Mormon?

Family pedigree and former affiliation do not entitle ex-members to define the Church they no longer sustain.

Silent machinery, empty pallets and waiting workers suggest stalled productivity under the deeper priorities of the Iranian regime.
Foreign affairs

The Logic Behind Iran

In Iran, what looks like incompetence may be a regime operating according to its deepest priorities.